South Korea In Singapore

The idea that Arsenal spend some of the summer months in Asia is nothing new of course. Back in 1990 they headed to Singapore to play a friendly against South Korea at the National Stadium which has now been demolished.

An interesting brochure was put together to commemorate the game. Interesting for me at least. The front cover pictures seem to show South Korea in action at the National Stadium itself while the Arsenal pictures came from their first game of that season at Old Trafford against Manchester United, a game we lost 4-1.

Then there is the player in the Chelsea shirt! Obviously the brochure producers couldn't find a picture of Colin Pates in an Arsenal shirt!

One player missing from the pen pics is Craig McKernon but then that shouldn't surprise us; he so rarely featured for the Arsenal spending most of his time with the club injured!

The game itself took place on 9 May, just four days after the final game of the season, a 2-2 draw at Norwich, and we won 2-1 with Alan Smith giving us a first half lead before a Lee Dixon penalty won us the game second half.

We did put a full strength team out for the game with McKernon on the bench alongside other serial benchwarmers Gus Caeser and Alan Miller.

For nostalgic petrol heads there was a two page advert in the brochure by Lada!