After the opening night of the Champions League, Arsenal fans were in dreamland, scarcely believing they had won 5-1 away to holders Lyon. Coupled with an impressive start to the domestic season, it suggested that the Gunners, still the only English team to win a European trophy, really were back.
By the time the final whistle went on the return match two months later, a gloom had descended on the 7,711 fans echoing around the Emirates in freezing, transport strike-hit London. Not only had Frida Maanum’s own goal resulted in a 1-0 defeat, Vivianne Miedema had been carried off
