Luckily I know there's a bit of an Arsenal contingent here on JA so hopefully we don't see too many of the comebacks we were on the receiving end of (Anderlecht on my birthday, I see you!) but I remember listening on the radio to Chelsea vs Arsenal in 1999 and experiencing what felt like the impossible.
2-0 down after 52 minutes courtesy of Flo and Petrescu for Chelsea on a day pouring with rain it wasn't looking too rosy for us, so we look to the bench and bring on Henry and Vivas but it was the man with the size 15 boots, Kanu, who started the match who would be the saviour.
With 75 minutes on the clock, Overmars struck a very speculative effort only for Kanu to stick out one of those giant boots to get a touch to stop the ball before firing it into De Goey's bottom corner. Game on.
Then in the 83rd minute it was Overmars again turning provider, this time with a cross meant for Kanu, who's first touch may have looked clumsy but took the ball away from the defence before firing in a shot at the near post to get us back on level terms.
You'd think after being 2-0 down and getting back to 2-2 in the 83rd minute we'd take a draw but Kanu had other ideas.
Into the 90th minute I remember vividly the commentator getting more and more excited as Kanu chased down Ferrer and the ball broke for the Arsenal man, for some reason De Goey decided now would be a good time to rush out of his box right on the dead ball line, Kanu again somewhat clumsily knocked the ball past the keeper, before unleashing a shot from an impossible angle, curling it over the top of not only Desailly but Lebouef as well into the far corner to give us all three points and the glorious headline of "Kanu believe it".
He may not have looked the most graceful of footballers but the man had so much skill and to pull that result from the brink, against a Chelsea side yet to concede at Stamford Bridge that season is up there with some of the best comebacks I've seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyW5Eg-8NBw
