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Arshavin's four-goal night returns to Sky Sports Retro

The pre-match team sheets top six new archive uploads, alongside Riise's Anfield free-kick and Carlton Cole's tribute to Scott Parker.

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17 years ago these were the starting line-ups for Liverpool v Arsenal 📆

Sky Sports Retro takes viewers back to Liverpool-Arsenal before anyone knows quite how extraordinary the evening will become. Its most watched new upload is just the broadcast's team-sheet sequence: Reina in goal, Torres up front, then Arsenal's players appearing with Arshavin in midfield and Bendtner alone in attack.

The description supplies the destination: the remarkable draw in which Arshavin scored all four Arsenal goals. The clip has reached roughly 130,000 views. In the comments, memories of those goals sit alongside a different reckoning: a match from 2009 now qualifies as footage from seventeen years ago. One viewer neatly punctures the player-recognition challenge by pointing out that the names are already on screen.

Across six uploads, the archive channel found several ways to revisit a football afternoon. Chelsea's emphatic victory over Manchester United gets both its starting line-ups and post-match reactions from Gianluca Vialli, Chris Sutton and Gus Poyet. Ian Wright's record-breaking Arsenal hat-trick gets an outing too.

The strongest viewing momentum now belongs to John Arne Riise's free-kick against Manchester United, posted on the anniversary of that 2001 Anfield match. Carlton Cole's interview after West Ham recovered from three goals down against West Brom is also active, with Cole crediting Scott Parker's half-time inspiration.

The channel collected about 1.4 million views over the week, while its subscriber count stayed unchanged. Daily viewing is above its usual level, unlike the quieter-than-usual daily activity at ITV Sport and The Rest Is Football. For Sky Sports Retro, the fresh interest spans both the spectacular strike and the team sheet that came before the spectacle.

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What viewers say

Seeing a retro video of a match that happened 17 years ago and it's 2009 and not 1992, sigh
@alekspagels288See it on YouTube
I can name them all. Their names are right there 👀
@1995davidgSee it on YouTube
17 years? How time flies!
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The year is 2009, the year I started supporting the Gunners 🔥
@jaro5603See it on YouTube
Arshavin and his four goals. That was incredible performance.
@makeyourselfgrowupSee it on YouTube
Silvestre and Bendtner. Miss that era
@mpinmpin9935See it on YouTube
0:32 sick transition
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