The Invincibles (football)
- The Invincibles (football)
"The Invincibles", in English football, has been either used to refer to the Preston North End team of the 1880s [cite web | url=http://www.pnefc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/History/0,,10362~1033954,00.html | title=The History of Preston North End | work=Preston North End official website ] [cite book |last= Taw |first= Thomas | title= Football's Twelve Apostles: The Making of The League 1886-1889 |year= 2006 |isbn=1-905328-09-5 |pages=pp. 17] , or the Arsenal team of the 2003-04 season. [cite web | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/3713537.stm | title=Arsenal the Invincibles | work=BBC Sport] In both cases, the teams won the top division of English football unbeaten, the only two times this has occurred in English football history.]The term invincible was first applied to Preston in 1883 by a correspondent from Blackburn as a 'sneer' in relation to their Scottish professionals.
Arsenal then emulated Preston's unbeaten run in the 2003-2004 season going unbeaten for all 38 games, almost twice as many league games as Preston had played. However Arsenal's 2003-04 side did not win the FA Cup in the same season, as they reached the semi-finals and lost to Manchester United. Their final record for the 2003-2004 league campaign stood at 26 wins, 12 draws and 0 losses, out of 38 games total. The unbeaten run, starting during the 2002-03 season and ending in the 2004-05 season, finally ended up spanning 49 league matches, which still stands as a national record.
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