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March 28, 2006 marked the date Arsenal Football Club said out with the old and in with the new in emphatic fashion.

It was a typically frosty evening in N5, as the Gunners welcomed Italian giants Juventus to Highbury in what was the iconic old ground's last season in operation before it was to be turned into a residential area. Arsene Wenger's Arsenal were keen to give it the send off it deserved with a decent run in Europe.

Having won the Premier League two years prior and the FA Cup the season before, Arsenal weren't exactly minnows - but on the European stage they had far less stature than the Turin-based titans standing in their way. While the magnitude of the Champions League quarter-final clash was obvious, there was a captivating side-story throughout.

This was due to the fact that Patrick Vieira - a man synonymous with the Gunners' success of the early Wenger-era and who scored the penalty to win that very same FA Cup 10 months prior, was now lining up in the famous black and white shirt of Juventus. He had not left under any cloud, there were no jeers greeting his return, but the sight of the lanky Frenchman at Highbury in opposition colours left many struggling to resonate.

The reason why Vieira left was to be laid bare within