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This season marks 20 years since Arsene Wenger’s ‘Invincibles’ won the Premier League title without losing a single game.
To honour the anniversary, Arsenal sent one of their current home shirts, with the Invincibles’ unbeaten record stitched into the sides, to every member of Wenger’s illustrious squad. Each shirt had the player’s name and number emblazoned on the back: “Henry 14”, “Bergkamp 10”, “Vieira 4”, and so on.
There was one shirt, of course, that could not be delivered: No 9, belonging to Jose Antonio Reyes. The Spaniard will be the one Invincible tragically absent from this season’s celebrations, having died in a car accident in 2019. He was 35.
Arsenal’s sporting director Edu was one of Reyes’ team-mates in the Invincibles team. “It’s not always easy to talk about it, but we have to,” Edu tells The Athletic. “We have to keep his memory alive. It’s beautiful.”