The Romford Pelé: It’s only Ray Parlour’s autobiography

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The result continued Arsenal’s excellent form away from home: at that stage, 22 of their 33 league points had been collected on the road. Even in December, it was a talking point that they were still unbeaten away from home. Nobody – not even, at that stage, Wenger – imagined they could go a whole season unbeaten away from home, never mind a whole season unbeaten full stop. West Wales trainer Rebecca Curtis is preparing two contenders for this weekend’s Grand National and hopes the horses’ relaxing dips in the waters of her private Pembrokeshire beach will give them an edge in the famous, gruelling race.

Arsenal maximised their physical advantage by defending narrowly and inviting crosses, most of which were cleared without a second thought by Keown and Campbell. They did the same job with opposing faces: Keown defended with frenzied concentration, Campbell with calm control. It took him a while to settle down at Highbury – he arrived overweight and was then injured – but his admirable performance in a vicious atmosphere at White Hart Lane a month earlier was effectively the start of his Arsenal career. By the time they went to Anfield he was looking like one of the world’s best defenders. To reinforce the point that he was up and running, three days later he scored his first goal for the club in a 2-1 win over Chelsea. There was a shadow over the game – a suddenly resurgent Manchester United. It was barely a fortnight since they were ninth in the table and Ferguson was writing off their title chances. They had only won three games in the league since them, all against relatively weak opposition, but a combined score of 12-1 and multiple slip-ups elsewhere made the rest of the league hear the Jaws score in their subconscious. On The Blind Side was always travelling well just off the leader Global Citizen. He may his move coming up to the final flight in the 2m4f contest. But he was made to work for victory as Tom George's Another Stowaway, under Adrian Heskin, belied his big odds to run the favourite close.

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Of The Romford Pele, also a nine-year-old, she added: “He prefers decent ground but I believe he will stay the National distance.” Igors Stepanovs, battling here with Sunderland’s Kevin Phillips in December 2000, ‘was a yard behind us on the pitch,’ according to Ray Parlour: ‘It was like taking my brother to training.’ Photograph: Shaun Botterill/Allsport Thierry is a great lad and very intelligent, which is why I think he can make a manager one day. He is not short of opinions. There was a spell when he was unmarkable. The only thing Dennis did differently for me is he transformed the nature of the club with his professionalism. Of course, Dennis was also special to play with. He could read your mind.

The Romford Pele, is currently ranked a 40-1 shot and may start at even longer odds on the day while on Thursday, bookmakers were giving odds of 33-1 on O’Foalains Boy. I’m hoping the sea paddling they’ve done will help them but this is a big race and you have to get them as fit as you possibly can in all sorts of ways.” Freddie Ljungberg scores to make it 2-o to 10-man Arsenal. Photograph: Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC/Getty Images

The book dips in and out of his private life where appropriate but it’s largely about the football and in particular (and this will come as no surprise) Arsenal football club.

a b "22nd Maurice Revello Tournament". Festival International Espoirs. Archived from the original on 2 May 2021 . Retrieved 2 April 2022. For the next five minutes, Arsenal barely got out of their quarter, never mind their half, and an equaliser felt inevitable. But they held on grimly until an accomplished piece of play from Parlour changed the mood. He collected a loose ball in the D, walked past Riise and won a throw-in off Berger. It doesn’t sound much but it was the first bit of composure by an Arsenal player since Litmanen’s goal, akin to a batsman sending a message to the dressing-room by defending confidently on a dodgy pitch.He added: "There is no objective. We just wanted to get today out of the way and we'll see where we go from here. The counter argument is that all of Wenger’s title-winning teams at Arsenal, whether their core was French or British, had the capacity for dramatic swings in form – they could take shortcuts to greatness or fall off a cliff. And in December 2001, there was plenty of reason to doubt Arsenal’s ability to win the title. One of the biggest was their form away from home to their biggest rivals, especially up north. Their visit to Anfield in 2001 came a year to the day after they had been hammered 4-0 on the same ground. A couple months after that they were humiliated 6-1 at Old Trafford. With the score 5-1 at half-time, Wenger lost it in the dressing-room like never before. And their overall record at Anfield was wretched – they had drawn one and lost eight of their last nine visits in all competitions, and their only league goal since 1992 was a penalty. Few people gave them a chance of victory. On returning to Wales, Rebecca began training on her father’s dairy farm and trained her first winner in 2008 with Mango Catcher. Viv's heroic slouch helps Setanta stand apart". The Observer. 19 August 2007 . Retrieved 21 December 2021. Arsène Wenger applauds Ray Parlour and Robert Pires after a win at Internazionale in 2003. The manager was a ‘clever man’ but ‘could also be a walking disaster’, according to Parlour. Photograph: Reuters