00:01That Ian Wright had been stuck teasingly one shy of the Arsenal scoring record for three Barron Club games
00:07merely helped build to today's enormous statistical climax.
00:10That Arsenal went behind on a day of Highbury history will surely soon be forgotten,
00:15except perhaps by Alan Thompson, whose header after 14 minutes brought to fruition Nathan Blake's excellent running cross.
00:21The last thing they'd have to cheer.
00:24Thereafter, it was Ian Wright's conversion into officially the Arsenal's most potent weapon ever.
00:29Bergkamp was brilliant throughout, Cliff Baston won 7-8, Ian Wright won 7-8, a score draw to span the
00:36generations.
00:37At that stage, the celebratory vest was one goal premature, but not for too much longer.
00:46Within four minutes, Bergkamp was brushing Bolton aside again.
00:49This wasn't his only brilliant run, on the end of it he deserved to score, Vieira should have done, Wright
00:55did.
00:55The gunner's greatest gunner, at the clock end, at Highbury, it was almost too much.
01:06Arsenal will miss Dennis Bergkamp in Greece this midweek, he's afraid of flying.
01:10So, as if to compensate, he completed a first-half hat-trick of assists right on the break.
01:16Ray Parler's effort catching Jimmy Phillips on the way in.
01:23But only one hat-trick concerned the North Bank, in front of which it was duly completed ten minutes from
01:28time.
01:29David Platt, recently off the bench, floated it in, and Ian Wright's sense of symmetry insisted that he should end
01:35this special afternoon on the maximum 180.
01:38With drawn late to receive his own special ovation, five goals in four days, his country's man of the moment,
01:45his club's striker of all time.
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