It was a bad night for Arsenal.
Arsene Wenger’s men slumped to a disappointing 2-1 defeat to Croatian side Dinamo Zagreb in their opening Champions League game.
It was a record 50th loss for Wenger in the competition.
While there will be inquests about everything from tactics to team selection – there’s one statistic that shows just how bad this defeat actually was.
Dinamo Zagreb had not won a Champions League game in 15 attempts. The last time they won a game was against Sturm Graz in 1999.
1999! As Alan Brazil points out, that God-awful song by Eiffel 65’s ‘Blue’ was Number 1 in the charts. And Arsenal were good.
Eiffel 65's 'Blue (Da Ba Dee)' was the UK Number One when Dinamo Zagreb last won in the Champions League group stages pic.twitter.com/ps8t5SCG2c
— talkSPORT Breakfast (@TSBreakfast) September 17, 2015
If you’d forgotten quite how bad that song was, here it is again…
