Lauren (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.