Henry first Premier player to score 100 goals at one ground
Thierry Henry... Arsenal`s best all-time scorer.
In season 2005/06 Arsenal's Thierry Henry chalked up a total of 100 league goals, clinching it in the 3-0 victory over Blackburn at Highbury to become the first player to score a century in the Premiership at a single ground.
His first goal came on November 28, 1999 vs Derby and his 100th against Blackburn on November 26 in almost six years of football.
Henry's 100 were captured thus: (1999-2000): 11 goals; (2000-01): 14; (2001-02): 13; (2002-03): 13; (2003-04): 22; (2004-05): 21; (first phase of 2005-06): 6.
The clubs to suffer under the Henry onslaught:
7 - Aston Villa, Charlton.
6 - Chelsea, Leeds, Man. United.
5 - Fulham, Leicester, Liverpool.
4 - Everton, Manchester City, Newcastle, Portsmouth, Sunderland.
3 - Blackburn, Middlesbrough, Norwich, Southampton, Tottenham, West Ham.
2 - Birmingham, Bolton, Crystal Palace, Derby, Ipswich, Wolves.
1 - Coventry, Sheffield Wednesday, Wimbledon.
Other items in the English game that have created more records and feats:
¤ Forward Jared Borgetti signs for Bolton for £900,000 from Pachuca to become the first Mexican player to give the nod to a Premiership side.
¤ Premiership newcomers Wigan smash their season ticket sales record in the first three hours of trading as fans purchase 7,000 tickets to outstrip the previous best mark of 4,700.
¤ In Slovakia, Celtic go down heavily to Artmedia Bratislava in the second qualifying round first leg of the Champions League. The 5-0 hiding is their worst result in Europe.
¤ Wigan pay a club record fee of £3 million to capture forward Henri Camara from Wolves.
¤ In their first European Cup tie at Goodison Park for 34 years, Everton lose 1-2 to Spanish side Villarreal in the third qualifying round first leg.
¤ In Copenhagen, Denmark beat England 4-1 for their worst defeat since losing to Wales by the same scoreline in 1980.
¤ Ghana midfielder Michael Essien leaves Lyon for Chelsea, who fork out a club record fee of £24.4m.
¤ In Monaco, European champions Liverpool topple UEFA Cup holders CSKA Moscow 3-1 after extra-time to claim the Super Cup, their 11th European honour overall.
¤ The 2-1 victory by Bolton at West Ham is the Trotters' first at Upton Park in 41 years.
¤ Charlton's three wins from three games and Man. City's 10 points from four outings give them their best ever Premiership start.
¤ Michael Owen returns from his one-season spell at Real Madrid to join Newcastle for a club record £17 million.
¤ England's 0-1 defeat away to N. Ireland is the latter's first win against the English since 1972 and the first loss in Belfast for 78 years.
¤ The 1-5 loss in the UEFA Cup first round against D. Bucharest away is Everton's heaviest defeat in Europe.
¤ For the first time in their history, Tottenham field a complete team of players of full international level in the 1-1 draw at Aston Villa. The side contained six Englishmen and one each from Canada, South Korea, Finland, Ireland and Poland.
¤ After their 2-0 triumph over Sunderland at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea attain maximum points from their first five league matches to register the best season opening in their history, in the top division.
¤ Following their 1-0 win at Inverness, Hearts claim seven wins on the trot for their best start in 91 years.
¤ The shock League Cup defeat in the second round away to Lincoln is Tottenham's first knockout in 26 years at this stage of the competition.
¤ Sequel to their 2-1 win over Fulham at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea clinch a Premiership record of seven straight wins from start of season.
¤ At Tynecastle, Hearts beat Rangers 1-0 to claim their eight consecutive victory from the beginning of the campaign, equalling the feat set in 1914-15, when under the management of John McCartney they went on to finish runners-up to champions Celtic, four points adrift.
¤ At Old Trafford, Blackburn beat Man. United 2-1 in the Premiership for their first win at the United's backyard since 1963-64 when they won 3-1 in the 'old' Division I.
¤ The 2-0 victory by Sunderland at Middlesbrough in the north-east derby, is the Black Cats' first Premiership win in 22 games stretching back to December 2002, the last time the club was in the top flight.
¤ The 2-1 triumph by Southend at Gillingham earns the Shrimpers a seventh successive victory to equal a club record that stood since 1924.
¤ The 4-1 thumping of Liverpool by Chelsea at Anfield sees the Reds conceding four goals at home for the first time since the start of the Premiership in 1992-93.
¤ In England's 1-0 home win over Austria, David Beckham becomes the first English captain to be sent off and dismissed twice while playing for his country. The encounter did not produce a Man. United player - the last time a 'Red Devil' was not in the England side was on October 10, 1999 in a 2-1 home win over Belgium 2-1.
¤ The opening goal by Michael Owen for England in the 2-1 win over Poland at Old Trafford in a World Cup qualifier leaves him on par with Gary Lineker's record of 22 goals in competitive matches for England.
¤ At 30, Chris Casper becomes the youngest manager in League football after being given the full-time job at Bury.
¤ Thierry Henry becomes Arsenal's all-time best scorer with a total of 186 goals - surpassing Ian Wright's feat by one netting - following his two-goal salvo in the 2-0 victory against Sparta in Prague in a Champions League group match.
¤ Following a Premiership record of nine successive wins from the start of a season, Chelsea are held to a 1-1 draw by Everton at Goodison Park.
¤ After two months of league and cup action since start of the campaign, Everton are knocked out of three competitions - Champions League, UEFA Cup and League Cup.
¤ Arsenal's Dennis Bergkamp becomes the first foreigner to play 300 games for one club in the Premiership after his appearance in the 3-1 home triumph over Sunderland.
¤ At Layer Road, Colchester set a new club record for a cup victory, trouncing non-League Leamington 9-1 in the first round of the FA Cup.
¤ At Old Trafford, Man. United end Chelsea's remarkable record run of 40 matches unbeaten in the Premiership with a 1-0 victory. The Londoners' previous loss came at Manchester City on October 16, 2004.
¤ The crowd of 25,004 to watch Wigan go down 1-3 to Arsenal in a Premiership match at the JJB Stadium, is a club attendance record for the Latics.
¤ After the 1-0 victory over FC Thun away, Arsenal set a club record of six straight wins in the Champions League.
¤ Frank Lampard accumulates a Premiership feat of 160 successive appearances in Chelsea's 2-0 win against Portsmouth at Fratton Park.
¤ After the 1-2 loss at Hibernian, Rangers create the worst sequence in the club history of eight matches without a win in league and cup competitions.
¤ League One side Doncaster create the biggest shock in their 126-year history, toppling Premiership side Aston Villa 3-0 at Layer Road to reach the last eight of the League Cup.
¤ Everton celebrate their 4,000th match in top-flight football with a 2-0 victory over Blackburn at Ewood Park.
¤ For the first time since 1993-94, Manchester United fail to reach the KO phase of the Champions League sequel to their 1-2 away loss at Benfica.
¤ At Ibrox Park, Rangers draw 1-1 against Inter to become the first Scottish club to move on to the knockout stage of the Champions League.
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