'Any London team going to Leeds struggled because they were up for a fight.' Inside Arsenal and Leeds' 'dirty' rivalry AFC LUFC
full-back Danny Mills recalls. “It was almost unheard of. You didn’t do that. And it sparked a little bit of a rivalry.
“The Arsenal-Leeds game has developed an edge that isn’t entirely desirable,” Crozier said, urging owners David Dein and Peter Ridsdale to make peace. While geography renders a rivalry between Leeds and Arsenal quite strange, history makes more sense of it. Describing Arsenal’s 1-0 defeat in the FA Cup final, one reporter wrote: “The game itself was as dismal as all the other Arsenal-Leeds games had been: the two teams had developed something of a history, and their meetings were usually violent and low-scoring.”
“We weren’t dissimilar to the Leeds team now, we played with a high tempo and we were aggressive. If you wanted a physical battle, bring it on.”And Arsenal weren’t innocent, either. “They were very talented, an exceptional team,” Mills continues. “But they were physical. And we were happy to go toe-to-toe with them.
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