The one that stands out for me is Thierry Henry against Real Madrid in 2006.

Arsenal went with a gameplan, it wasn’t pretty but my word Henry was insane. He wasn’t just on another level that game, he brought Madrid to its knees.

Dennis Bergkamp

Its not luck (though luck can be a factor, as it can feature in everything) but football is based on so many variables that the result under a microscope is always different and no match plays the same.

Players who had a bad nights sleep the day before can perform worse. Can carry small underlying injuries. Can have some bad news on their mind. They are all human and it creates variables which shift and change a person and performance. Its why clubs try to mitigate it with sleep therapists, excessive medical assessments and even family therapies.

Luck in football is a tiny factor, and normally one based on human performance. But the real reason a team will batter another, hit the post eight times while the other team grab a late winner is more so down to these microscopic differences rather than luck. Something that most football fans of many years appreciate and why managers and clubs these days go above and beyond to the tiniest detail.

Dennis Bergkamp - man could find anyone making a half decent run. Just so happened he partnered Henry…