Arsenal podcaster Tim Stillman.

And, you know, there's so much about this kind of tournament and winning this tournament

that's a little bit different and stuff that's just completely lost in the kind of fog of context

and history. Like it's a real moment in time, I think. I think that's the thing about it. And

football doesn't really have that anymore because of financial disparity. We pretty much know

who's going to get to the final stages of tournaments, who's going to win the league,

and things like that, whereas it was a bit more fluid then, and I think this is just a real, like, moment in time,

which is why it's actually quite difficult to answer questions, like, do you remember how you felt at the time and how it looked at the time?

Because it's almost impossible to look at it, well, it's not impossible, but it's difficult to look at it in isolation.

A May 4th, 1994, Arsenal traveled to Copenhagen, undermanned and decidedly as underdogs,

to face Parma in the European Cup Winners' Cup final.

This is 1-0 to the Arsenal, the story of the 1994 European Cup Winners' Cup victory.

I'm your host, Kent Malmrose.

Part 5, Attacking Flair.

In part four, we outlined the Arsenal shift to a Cups focus under George Graham.

Much of that was driven by an identity associated with the roster makeup and then also a tactical

shift enabled by those personnel changes. It was all built around a legendary

defense complemented by a midfield that traded flare for function over time under the gaffer.

The consensus was that Graham's gunners had lost their offensive potency, and that was backed

up by a dramatic change in goal scoring

output during the 92-93 season, when the squad scored just 40 goals in domestic

competition, the fewest in the league.

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