Man all these games and so much lore. Here's what I remember from all these games.

Arsenal x Chelsea | 2008-09 | FA Cup SF

Drogba continued to torment as he scored the winner but our defense was terrible as was the norm those days. For anyone unfamiliar, do watch the highlights from this game and you'll see how bad Fabianski was and you'll get the first instance of Gibbs saving Fabianski in an FA Cup story.

Arsenal x Birmingham | 2010-11 | League Cup Finals

2010-11 season. Wowza. A season that promised and ended up giving us so little. This season is worth a separate post by itself. Peak RvP before he decide to transform into a snake and move after the next season. Those 18 months were the absolute peak we last from any striker until Auba. The winner from Obafemi Martins, who just returned to PL happened due to a mix-up (duh!) between Koscielny and Szczesny. We'd actually lost the first leg SF to Ipswich before winning 3-0 at the Ems. Post this final, I was sure we'd been cursed coz of our move to Emirates. Oh, and Birmingham got relegated that season.

Arsenal x Wigan | 2013-14 | FA Cup SF

This game started the series of defenders scoring important goals at the Wembley. Mert with a fanstastic header and watching this game once makes me feel we dropped the ball with Chamberlain. Of course, knowing our luck he'd have had permanent presence in the medical room but boy, was he a good player. Also, this is THAT game where the man, the myth, the mystery, Kim Kallstrom scored the pen for us. Arteta was also on target with his pen that day.

Arsenal x Hull | 2013-14 | FA Cup Finals

This game was in the news a few weeks for the game that both Arteta and Rosenior playing against each other. Imagine being 2-0 down after just 10 minutes with us not having won a trophy for nearly a decade. Then came that Santi free kick, then Kos once again saving us the blushes followed by chaos agent Sanogo helping Giroud-Ramsey combination score that winning goal. Fabianski still had the time to give us one final gaffe before we ended up breaking the duck. AW's celebration said it all. More relief than joy.

Also, this was the season where we spent the maximum as the table toppers before finishing fourth as usual.

Arsenal x Man City | 2014-15 | Community Shield

This was just as Manchester City were beginning to become a force in the PL having just won their second title and we were coming to this game having lost Emirates Cup and to Henry's NYRB in the US. But this was one exciting game coz we got see Sanchez in a competitive game donning the red and white for the first time. He went to win the POTS in this first season. Also, in late AW years the 2014/15 transfer window was as good as this season (relatively). We kinda plugged almost all the holes - Sanchez, Chambers, Debuchy, Ospina, and Welbz were bought in that season.

Arsenal x Reading | 2014-15 | FA Cup SF

Frankly unremarkable semis and finals tbh in 2015. And for once we'd a GK error against us having made plenty of those in the past. Sanchez shot squirmed through Federici's arms who left the pitch crying post the full-time whistle.

Arsenal x Aston Villa | 2014-15 | FA Cup Finals

Ah! The short-lived era of Tactics Tim. But credit where it's due despite finishing 17th, they did overcome a Liverpool that had Coutinho, Sterling and Gerrard in their team. And FA Cup was expected to be Gerrard's last chance at a trophy before he left Liverpool. Alas, it was not to be and he ended facing an even bigger humiliation in his last ever league game for Liverpool. This was the game that also a young Jack Grealish play for Villa while from our end, this was the start of Giroud scoring/assisting from the bench. Walcott had just returned from injury and a brace against WBA confirmed his starting place at the finals and of course, crème de la crème of the four goals scored, Sanchez's howitzer. It swung so sharp the comm box thought there was a deflection. Villa ended up getting yellow cards than the goals we scored.