Contents
ARSENAL FOOTBALL CLUB OFFICIAL PROGRAMME
2 Voice of Arsenal
Your travel arrangements
for Emirates Stadium
A Dennis Bergkamp
The man himself welcomes
you to his Testimonial
match
8 Peter Hill-Wood
Words from the Arsenal
Chairman
10 Today's Running Order
Schedule of events
12 Arsène Wenger
The boss on a decade of
working with Dennis
14 Make-a-Wish
One of four charities
benefiting from today's
game
16 Johan Cruyff
The man who gave Dennis
his professional debut
18 Dennis Bergkamp's
Arsenal debut
Turning the clock back to
August 20,1995
20 My Top Ten Goals
Dennis chooses his all-
time top ten Gunners goals
22 Thierry Henry
The Frenchman on seven
years as Dennis's strike
partner
24 Kika
Another of the charities
being supported today
26 Marco van Basten
From one Dutch legend to
another
28 Dennis Bergkamp
photofile
The early years
30 Henrita Bergkamp
Being married to the
Iceman
31 At Home with the
Berg kamps
Photos from the family
album
36 WimJonk
Former team-mate at Ajax
and Inter
38 Willow Foundation
One of four charities
benefiting from today's
game
39 Guus Hiddink
Former Holland national
team boss remembers that
goal against Argentina
40 Dennis with Ajax
Where it all began
42 Patrick Vieira
The former Gunners
skipper pays tribute
44 Jaap de Groot
The Dutch journalist has
been there every step of
the way
45 Dennis with Holland
An illustrious international
career
46 Ian Wright
Wrighty tells the story of
how he first met Dennis
49 Bruce Rioch
The man who brought
Dennis to Arsenal
51 Edwin van der Sar
Former Ajax and Holland
team-mate
52 Robin van Persie
Continuing the Dutch
connection at Arsenal
53 The Cruyff Foundation
Another charity chosen by
Dennis to benefit today
54 Fans' Tributes
Your good-will messages
59 On Dennis...
Tributes from past and
present team-mates
60 Today's visitors
Who will be wearing the
Ajax strip today?
62 Arsenal Career Stats
423 games, 120 goals
41-65 Flick pic
If you flick the pages of the programme backwards, you will see an animated sequence of
Dennis Bergkamp's memorable goal against Newcastle from 2002 in the top right corner.
DENNIS BERGKAMP
TESTIMONIAL MATCH
Henrita Bergkamp, chairperson of the
Dennis Bergkamp Testimonial Committee,
would like thank the rest of the committee,
which has worked so hard to make today's
event possible - Dennis' brother Wim
Bergkamp, Rob Jansen, Stuart Peters and
Stewart Coburn.
Thanks also to all the staff at Arsenal
Football Club, especially David Miles,
for all of their efforts too.
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LIFE VICE-PRESIDENT: Clive Carr
DIRECTORS: Peter Hill-Wood (Chairman)
David Dein (Vice Chairman)
Richard Carr, Daniel Fiszman, Ken Friar 0BE,
Keith Edelman (Managing Director), Lady Nina Bracewell-Smith,
Sir Chips Keswick, Lord Harris of Peckham
SECRETARY: David Miles
MANAGER: Arsène Wenger 0BE
PHYSIOTHERAPIST: Gary Lewin, MCSP, SRP
LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: 1931,1933,1934,1935,1938,1948,1953,
1971,1989,1991,1998, 2002, 2004
FA CUP WINNERS: 1930,1936,1950,1971,1979,1993,1998, 2002,
2003, 2005
LEAGUE CUP WINNERS: 1987,1993
CHARITY/COMMUNITY SHIELD WINNERS: 1930,1931,1933,1934,
1938,1948,1953,1991 (shared), 1998,1999, 2002, 2004
EUROPEAN FAIRS CUP WINNERS: 1970
EUROPEAN CUP WINNERS' CUP WINNERS: 1994
FA YOUTH CUP WINNERS: 1966,1971,1988,1994, 2000, 2001
Cover image:
Dennis Bergkamp at the top tier of
Emirates Stadium last week
Programme editorial team:
Andy Exley, Josh James, Svein Clouston,
Jaap de Groot
Photography:
Stuart MacFarlane, David Price
Designed and Printed by:
M Press (sales) Ltd
WALKING ALONG, SINGING A SONG, WALKING IN A BERGKAMP WONDERLAND."
