I'm a 35 year old die hard United fan and I've no shame in admitting how borderline obsessed I was with Thierry in his pomp.. The socks, the strut, the celebration, the wristband, the colour coded Vapors, even his kicking technique - copied the lot. When Sky introduced PlayerCam, I'd record his 15 mins on the old VHS and then study it as if I had an exam my life depended on!! I had first dibs on shirt numbers for pretty much every team I've played for and by 2003, I gave up wearing 10 for 14, haven't changed since. For me, the best player I've ever seen play in England, not even close.
Same here Utd fan ,35 I hated him but absolutely loved him to 😂😂 it shows how good Ruud van nistelrooy was to win a golden boot during the same time as Henry at this best
Literally we are the same person. I loved Beckham & Cantona, but as a young black kid, seeing Henry, Cole, Yorke and R9 literally made me want to be a footballer. Henry being the 1 I was most fascinated with. Honestly, if I had discovered him 1st, I may have been an Arsenal fan 🤢🤢😉
Watching Henry live in the prem was like watching an adult play against a group of school boys in the playground. Thierry was too good for his time, I'd love to see him play in today's prem.
It's not that long ago Henry had his hey day, and football hasn't really evolved since then. At least not individually which is what we're basically discussing here. Can you think of a striker today that is better than Henry in any department? I can't. As a Norwegian that shuld be biased towards Haaland, I can easily say that Henry was miles upon miles ahead of Haaland who is currently the best striker in the PL imo. Henry had it all, he was a complete player.
What made Henry special was the combination of many things. From a technical pov probably only Bergkamp was ahead of him in the PL, from a goalscoring pov he was dangerous from anywhere, he could pick the ball up from his own half, beat 4 players and score, he could score worldies from well outside the box, he scored free kicks, when teams played deep he could find space anywhere and score, he played off the shoulder and was always looking for that through ball from Dennis or Pires, he made scoring with his instep from that acute left angle "the Henry goal". In the MLS he was even scoring the odd corner! From a physical pov he was a powerhouse, not quite on the level of guys like Drogba and Adriano in terms of strength but he wasn't far off, very underrated how strong Henry was, he is a big guy at 6ft 2. Then there was the speed of him. In his peak years (around early 00's) he was recorded by SkySports in the halftime show running at 39.2km/h - that's a faster top speed than anyone has recorded in the PL since they started officially recording top speeds, that's faster than Mbappe, Traore, Walker, A Davies to name a few. I never once saw Henry beaten for pace when he was at full gallop - it was effortless, he glided. Then there was his intelligence, such an intelligent player always aware of where his teammates were and where the opposition was. His teamwork and passing, this is a guy that still holds the record of PL assists which is astounding when you consider some of the top playmakers we have seen in the PL. He had a wonderful weight of pass, so often picking out runs of players like Pires and Freddie who would often run off him when he dropped deeper to pick the ball up. His vision on the ball was 2nd only to Dennis in the Arsenal team (who for me was the best final third passer Ive seen in the PL). Finally his character, he had that right level of arrogance but with humility (something I often see missing from some of the modern players like Mbappe). He wanted to be the best, to be flamboyant, but he also adopted the old skool values of those great Arsenal players of the generation before - guys like Tony Adams, Keown,Dixon, Seaman, Bergkamp who taught him what it meant to be an Arsenal player. Its that combination of factors and playing in that unbelievable Arsenal team as to why he was so special.
I am a Liverpool fan, Henry is why I fell in love with football... my step dad supported united, my eldest brother supported arsenal... we had an anti United alliance 😂
The aura of the man is unreal. Made Ben nervous but you can tell how all professionals on different shows treat him. On CBS you can tell Jamie Carragher and Micah look up to him. The fact he never won the Ballon D’or was maybe because Arsenal didn’t win a champions league. But Michael Owen and Pável Nedved winning one over him counter that reason. I’m sorry. This guy was the best player in the world for 3-4 years. Unreal legend of the game.
I love these pods. I would love to see Mathieu Flamini on the pod if you could make that happen somehow. Going from a football player at arsenal to where he is at now would make for such an interesting pod.
Thierry still has the record for 4 golden boots in the premier league but another stat is one of those years he scored 24 goals but 20 assists as a striker, not just a goal machine but a provider....It's why as a Arsenal fan i cringe at younger fans thinking Ozil breaking Thierry's record of assists was a achievement...Ozil failed this with Giroud up top missing so many chances.
Henry was someone I loved to hate because of how good he was. He and ruud fighting for the golden boot run was awesome. Better than mbappe in my opinion.
Kids only seen Messi and Ronaldo etc, football back then in Thierry's or Ruud's era was a proper mans game tackles flying in etc so strikers had to be good...Ruud and Thierry both legends👍 Thierry won the golden boots he's the only player to have 4 even now....Shows how good he really was.
@@The_Dead_Zone , the games between united and arsenal were nail biting and intense. Miss the good old days. Arsenal were unlucky to loose their players to Chelsea, City and Barcelona during that era. Wenger should be lauded for the way they ran their club.
@@Hawker400xp As a Arsenal fan watching so many of our players leave was painful it's why i understand the grief or anger when clubs favourite players leave...For example Rice to Arsenal etc Yeah back then Chelsea had Roman's money, Barca was always attractive and City started to cheat.
Thierry Henry and Ronaldinho are by far my favorite living football legends, they are the reason I fell in love with football in the first place, they are part of my childhood... Henry should have won at least one or two ballon d'or in the 2003 and 2004 seasons, he was so unique and underrated back then, he was almost unstoppable and genuinely a very good all-rounder authentic player. ☯️✌️
With the way teams set up and defend and press today and Henry was in his prime, he would score more goals than the likes of Haaland. He was an unplayable striker that had to do a lot more to score. Intelligence, movement, speed and that killer instinct. That's my opinion and it is only an opinion.
@@samstudy21 He won it didn't he, along with the European Championship, 2 x PL titles, 2 x Spanish Champions, 1 x French Champion, 2 x EUFA Super Cups, 3 x FA cups, 2 x Spanish Super Cups, 1 x Spanish Cup, 1 x FIFA Confederations Cup and let's not forget a freaken World Cup!
I think Henry is far far better player then haaland and I don't think haaland will never ever come close to Henry in football ablty but haaland will score more goals than Henry if they played in the same league just because haaland leaves for just only goals the guy touches 20 ball par game that is even less than a goalkeeper. Henry is a complete player because of that he will score less but will have more G+A in a season.
I'm a liverpool fan. And Henry when I was a kid was my idol. I actually bought an arsenal kid just so I could have Henry on the back to pretend to be him
Jens learnt that mentality from Oliver Kahn. Kahn had this mentality and philosophy where he could be 0-2 down and in his head, hes still kept his clean sheet... The mistakes, they never happened
He's responsible for 95% of arsenal's fanbase. He's also the reason why said fans are insufferable twats. An incredible player and a true prem legend. - a united fan.
Best ever foreign player that has played in England. Ronaldo and Suarez etc didnt come close to his effortless brilliance and Henry had a level of class that they didnt possess (while they were in England anyway).
Yeah, that era plays proper football. It becoming soulless as time goes on. Technically wise too, the current football is deteorating. Back then there are a lot of deadball freekick specialist, but now... Who?
Who’s the guest? Ya need to put it in the bio or something 99% of people won’t watch this because it just says ‘Mark’… sack ya PR guy he’s depraving you of quadruple the views your videos should and would have Ben bro!😊
For forcing an ad on a YT subscriber...you're gone. Won't even watch your content let alone subscribe. You want me to pay twice for no ads or something?? Jokers.
Thanks for having me on, legends! 💪 #GKunion
Brilliant interview
The whole reason I chose arsenal 20+ years ago, no one will ever be better than him in my eyes but that's just my biased opinion
Great interview and subscribed 👍🏻
Same❤
after hearing your story about jens lehman, i'm sure willy cabellero wears gloves to big for him. Never seen a man with longer arms compared to body.
He's the reason i actually fell in love with football
Gaylord
Gay
Who? You?
@@samprizeman4509 i understand English is a worldwide problem.
@@OT_wuodadhis Sick burn.
I'm a 35 year old die hard United fan and I've no shame in admitting how borderline obsessed I was with Thierry in his pomp.. The socks, the strut, the celebration, the wristband, the colour coded Vapors, even his kicking technique - copied the lot. When Sky introduced PlayerCam, I'd record his 15 mins on the old VHS and then study it as if I had an exam my life depended on!! I had first dibs on shirt numbers for pretty much every team I've played for and by 2003, I gave up wearing 10 for 14, haven't changed since. For me, the best player I've ever seen play in England, not even close.
Love this comment
Same here Utd fan ,35 I hated him but absolutely loved him to 😂😂 it shows how good Ruud van nistelrooy was to win a golden boot during the same time as Henry at this best
Literally we are the same person. I loved Beckham & Cantona, but as a young black kid, seeing Henry, Cole, Yorke and R9 literally made me want to be a footballer. Henry being the 1 I was most fascinated with. Honestly, if I had discovered him 1st, I may have been an Arsenal fan 🤢🤢😉
I was an Avid Juve Fan that time, with ADP, Trezeguet & Nedved. But seeing how easy that team could create chances looking back was a cheat code.
I think he started the socks over the knees trend
Henry raised the bar in the Premier league. He was unreal
Watching Henry live in the prem was like watching an adult play against a group of school boys in the playground. Thierry was too good for his time, I'd love to see him play in today's prem.
He would smash it even more in today's game. Can't tackle like you could 20 years ago. He'd rip defenses apart
It's not that long ago Henry had his hey day, and football hasn't really evolved since then. At least not individually which is what we're basically discussing here. Can you think of a striker today that is better than Henry in any department? I can't. As a Norwegian that shuld be biased towards Haaland, I can easily say that Henry was miles upon miles ahead of Haaland who is currently the best striker in the PL imo. Henry had it all, he was a complete player.
What made Henry special was the combination of many things. From a technical pov probably only Bergkamp was ahead of him in the PL, from a goalscoring pov he was dangerous from anywhere, he could pick the ball up from his own half, beat 4 players and score, he could score worldies from well outside the box, he scored free kicks, when teams played deep he could find space anywhere and score, he played off the shoulder and was always looking for that through ball from Dennis or Pires, he made scoring with his instep from that acute left angle "the Henry goal". In the MLS he was even scoring the odd corner!
From a physical pov he was a powerhouse, not quite on the level of guys like Drogba and Adriano in terms of strength but he wasn't far off, very underrated how strong Henry was, he is a big guy at 6ft 2. Then there was the speed of him. In his peak years (around early 00's) he was recorded by SkySports in the halftime show running at 39.2km/h - that's a faster top speed than anyone has recorded in the PL since they started officially recording top speeds, that's faster than Mbappe, Traore, Walker, A Davies to name a few. I never once saw Henry beaten for pace when he was at full gallop - it was effortless, he glided.
Then there was his intelligence, such an intelligent player always aware of where his teammates were and where the opposition was.
His teamwork and passing, this is a guy that still holds the record of PL assists which is astounding when you consider some of the top playmakers we have seen in the PL. He had a wonderful weight of pass, so often picking out runs of players like Pires and Freddie who would often run off him when he dropped deeper to pick the ball up. His vision on the ball was 2nd only to Dennis in the Arsenal team (who for me was the best final third passer Ive seen in the PL).
Finally his character, he had that right level of arrogance but with humility (something I often see missing from some of the modern players like Mbappe). He wanted to be the best, to be flamboyant, but he also adopted the old skool values of those great Arsenal players of the generation before - guys like Tony Adams, Keown,Dixon, Seaman, Bergkamp who taught him what it meant to be an Arsenal player.
Its that combination of factors and playing in that unbelievable Arsenal team as to why he was so special.
Brilliant comment! 👍
I couldn’t agree more, Henry was a true maestro of the game!
One of the best I’ve ever seen play the game, truly a magnificent player…
I disagreeeeee with nothing
Overrated
Couldn’t have said it better myself mate. Honestly such a descriptive comment & every single detail I agreed with.
I am a Liverpool fan, Henry is why I fell in love with football... my step dad supported united, my eldest brother supported arsenal... we had an anti United alliance 😂
King titi can't tell u how much I love that man being a gooner and watching Henry in his prime was special TH14
100% . Him and Ian right were my idols , Arsenal are gonna be a strong strong side now for years to come . COYG
The aura of the man is unreal. Made Ben nervous but you can tell how all professionals on different shows treat him. On CBS you can tell Jamie Carragher and Micah look up to him. The fact he never won the Ballon D’or was maybe because Arsenal didn’t win a champions league. But Michael Owen and Pável Nedved winning one over him counter that reason. I’m sorry. This guy was the best player in the world for 3-4 years. Unreal legend of the game.
FIFA should be ashamed. Depriving Henry at his peak was cheating.
It’s why those awards should be taken with a grain of salt- they’re often more about a narrative than who’s actually the best at any given time.
@abhinavamukherjee2807 as an Irish man I have no real issue with Henry being cheated😂😂😂
@@padawan9127By your logic Ireland deserve what they got then... since I'm sure irish footballers have cheated at some point in their lives.....
@@ysycotik we're all pricks anyway!!!
Thierry Henry is THE iconic premier league superstar
Titi and Ronaldinho made so many of us fall in love with this sport
I love these pods. I would love to see Mathieu Flamini on the pod if you could make that happen somehow. Going from a football player at arsenal to where he is at now would make for such an interesting pod.
Jens lehman was such an underrated GK
Nope. Always had a mistake in him.
Mad Jens
Bergkamp and henry was what made me support Arsenal as a youngster. Watching them was magical
I grew up watching Ian Wright. Had posters of him all over my bedroom. Absolutely idolised him. Then Arsenal signed The King❤
Thierry still has the record for 4 golden boots in the premier league but another stat is one of those years he scored 24 goals but 20 assists as a striker, not just a goal machine but a provider....It's why as a Arsenal fan i cringe at younger fans thinking Ozil breaking Thierry's record of assists was a achievement...Ozil failed this with Giroud up top missing so many chances.
I remember he had like 16 assists by December….. then had like 2 for the rest of the season…
Messi is the only other player to do 20+ goals and assists in a league season
@@richardleach2931 Wrong try watching football kido you might learn something 😂Thierry was doing this before Messi was a thing lol.
Can’t believe he didn’t win the Ballon D’or that year
@@The_Dead_Zone I meant only other player not only player 😅
Titi was one of the players that made me fall in love with football. He was like a basketball point guard. Just slick. Nice guy too.
Thierry Henry- the most watchable player of all time. Power, grace, speed, and skill personified.
Thierry = Style, intelligence, Speed and passion.
Henry was someone I loved to hate because of how good he was. He and ruud fighting for the golden boot run was awesome. Better than mbappe in my opinion.
He's miles ahead of Mbappe tbh, Henry had that elite Mentality. Unreal player
Kids only seen Messi and Ronaldo etc, football back then in Thierry's or Ruud's era was a proper mans game tackles flying in etc so strikers had to be good...Ruud and Thierry both legends👍
Thierry won the golden boots he's the only player to have 4 even now....Shows how good he really was.
@@The_Dead_Zone , the games between united and arsenal were nail biting and intense. Miss the good old days. Arsenal were unlucky to loose their players to Chelsea, City and Barcelona during that era. Wenger should be lauded for the way they ran their club.
@@Hawker400xp As a Arsenal fan watching so many of our players leave was painful it's why i understand the grief or anger when clubs favourite players leave...For example Rice to Arsenal etc
Yeah back then Chelsea had Roman's money, Barca was always attractive and City started to cheat.
Mbappe plays in a farmers league, if he does it in a better league I'd respect him more.
Great interview. Like others have said, you really should put Mark Howard’s full name in the caption so people know who he is.
You could write his full name, address, phone number and upload his birth certificate and nobody would know who he is.
@@james_44😂😂 ffs 😂😂
😂😂😂
Henry was pure class.
Mark Howard 👍 I used to play with him in junior football. Was absolute class
This is just men crushing on other men, I love it! It's the Thierry Henry effect
We used to turn up to games early at Highbury just to watch the likes of Bergkamp and Henry train. It was an amazing era.
Course 💯
massive respect to you ben for helping Wrexham 👍
Helping lmao
My fav of all time. The reason I love football and Arsenal.
Him and Ronaldinho were different calibre different planet amazing outstanding not just stats wise all around wise 🎉❤
Thierry Henry and Ronaldinho are by far my favorite living football legends, they are the reason I fell in love with football in the first place, they are part of my childhood... Henry should have won at least one or two ballon d'or in the 2003 and 2004 seasons, he was so unique and underrated back then, he was almost unstoppable and genuinely a very good all-rounder authentic player. ☯️✌️
Reason why I started supporting arsenal. Legend !
I’m a Spurs fan and honestly, Henry was the best player in the world at one point, criminally robbed of a ballon d’or in my opinion.
I subscribed this positive RUclips channel , because I'm arsenal fan since 'Home of football' Highbury till now.
With the way teams set up and defend and press today and Henry was in his prime, he would score more goals than the likes of Haaland. He was an unplayable striker that had to do a lot more to score. Intelligence, movement, speed and that killer instinct. That's my opinion and it is only an opinion.
I agree. His scoring ability of both feet and his pace would destroy a lot of defences currently
Then why did he did so average in the ucl throughout the years?
@@samstudy21 He won it didn't he, along with the European Championship, 2 x PL titles, 2 x Spanish Champions, 1 x French Champion, 2 x EUFA Super Cups, 3 x FA cups, 2 x Spanish Super Cups, 1 x Spanish Cup, 1 x FIFA Confederations Cup and let's not forget a freaken World Cup!
I think Henry is far far better player then haaland and I don't think haaland will never ever come close to Henry in football ablty but haaland will score more goals than Henry if they played in the same league just because haaland leaves for just only goals the guy touches 20 ball par game that is even less than a goalkeeper. Henry is a complete player because of that he will score less but will have more G+A in a season.
@@pauliyonas3576 I'm in agreement with you.
Henry in his prime 🔥
I'm a liverpool fan. And Henry when I was a kid was my idol. I actually bought an arsenal kid just so I could have Henry on the back to pretend to be him
Howard was absolutely top drawer at Carlisle, was one of the very few good players in a shite season
Amazing. AMAZING! STORY TELLERS
The Michael Jordan of English football
Premier league goat
King Henry is the Greatest player to have ever played in the Premier League, end of.
Facts 🔥
Henry is the reason i started supporting Arsenal.
Shout out for Ben and Toms Nike jordons… lovely. Holy smokes, big up yourself!
He is the reason why I'm an Arsenal fan, even to this day my favourite number is 14 lmao
"Smells good!" 🤣
He's the reason I started supporting Arsenal 😊
The invisible 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰#COYG!!!!!
1:40
That is a fantastic jump by Zlatan.
R9 and Henry gotta be two of the quickest strikers ever
They were the fastest, but also so skillfull; just absolutely breathtaking players
LFC til i die, but Henry at arsenal was something else bro..
He will forever be the greatest all round striker the Premier league will ever see.
We love Henry
My first jersey was that of Thierry Henry. When he was in barça
City youngsters must feel the same with pep and the players
"gives gk's a good name" thats you Ben
1:48 As Arsenal fan this was the biggest problem/downgrade ever mxm. (Until Wozniacki Szacney atleast came)
look at me hands lad 🤣🤣🤣😂
As a utd fan and we had Ruud. Have to admit Henry was incredible. However R9 was the best
Jens learnt that mentality from Oliver Kahn.
Kahn had this mentality and philosophy where he could be 0-2 down and in his head, hes still kept his clean sheet... The mistakes, they never happened
Nobody since Suarez scores worldies like Henry did. Game has changed.
Kids these days are oblivious to the fact that the Premier League's GOAT was a French boy at Arsenal
I've heard you talk about PSP's on numerous occasions now, If they bring out a psp wiith ps5 graphics now you'll have a meltdown 😂
I named my son Thierry ❤😂
Same here ❤😂
I tried the Mrs wouldn't have it
Football is all about mindset.
Spotify is Not Free..
Super Ben Foster in GK!!!
He's responsible for 95% of arsenal's fanbase. He's also the reason why said fans are insufferable twats. An incredible player and a true prem legend.
- a united fan.
Thierry made many fall in love with football, he's made many straight men gay and many gay women straight
My two favorite gk!❤
🙌🙌
King Henry 👑 14
Google was definitely my friend on this one.
Best ever foreign player that has played in England. Ronaldo and Suarez etc didnt come close to his effortless brilliance and Henry had a level of class that they didnt possess (while they were in England anyway).
He deserved a ballon dor
That little orgasm noise Ben does when someone explains how someone is the nicest person in the world
This is why people think keepers are insane 🤣
is that Ibrahimovic in front of Lehman?
Lehman is a don. Almunia was a jester
And when hear Henry talk about how good messi was in training and how made him look average shows how great messi
So what was ‘that story’?
If you extend your fingers constantly your fingers grow more… that’s a fact.
I wake up with a lob on every morning how come that don't get no bigger 😅
@@Camberwell86 I’ll get back to you need to research that …. 😂 are you white? 🙌🏼
@@Bobbibouchersmumwasright yeah very pale white but the old boy's quite a bit darker 😅
@@Camberwell86 it’s been in too many dark places 😂😂
@@Bobbibouchersmumwasright the police weren't happy last time I let it see the light though 😂
Bergkamp/Henry :)
I wonder if anything or anyone at Arsenal was a joke(?)!
When your guest leaves people trying to “guess” who he is
It would have taken you less time to click the description and find out yourself
@@Lukeecit doesn’t even say it in the description just Mark
@@Lukeec 🤡🤡 the description says “mark” am I meant to know who he is based on “mark”
Theirry was like a lion who roam the Sahara.
this was silly.....no info on a name, had to use google to find this guys name....why no name in video ?
It's in the description...
had to watch this at 0.75 speed.
When did “I think” become “I fink” ?
Yeah, that era plays proper football. It becoming soulless as time goes on.
Technically wise too, the current football is deteorating.
Back then there are a lot of deadball freekick specialist, but now... Who?
3:55----
Who is this?
Mark Howard Wrexham keeper , former arsenal youth player.
Mark Howard
Who’s the guest? Ya need to put it in the bio or something 99% of people won’t watch this because it just says ‘Mark’… sack ya PR guy he’s depraving you of quadruple the views your videos should and would have Ben bro!😊
Mark Howard Wrexham keeper , former arsenal youth player.
Va Va Vooooom
Can't watch footy since he retired man just not the same
Va va voom
Was it a joke?
For forcing an ad on a YT subscriber...you're gone. Won't even watch your content let alone subscribe. You want me to pay twice for no ads or something?? Jokers.
day 3 of asking 👀👀👀
Shearer was better.
Jeez what a nonsense vid. It's a joke " repeated 100 times & I agree
He was good but never better than R9 by his own admission
Henry flopped in the ucl, he was also getting rattled by a 19 year old Ronaldo at highbury lmao…
He won a UCL. At least know your history before talking
I'm pretty sure he won the champions league
Don't talk like a c,,t
lol
And a WC ffs 😂😂😂