'A Target, Not an Obsession': What Does It Take to End a Season 'Invincible'?

ArsenalLauren (R) celebrates with Thierry Henry and Robert PiresGetty

It was not until he was hunched on a bench in the old Highbury changing room at half-time of the season's last game that Lauren started to appreciate what it would mean for Arsenal to finish the 2003-04 campaign unbeaten.

Crowned Premier League champions three weeks earlier following a 2-2 draw at arch-rivals Tottenham Hotspur, Arsenal needed only to avoid defeat at home to Leicester City in their final fixture to become the English top flight's first unbeaten champions in 115 years. Lauren, Arsenal's Cameroonian right-back, had not given much prior thought to the possibility, but with Leicester leading 1-0 at the break…