If you have to fill your midfield up with English midgets, they might as well be David Batty.
Originally Posted by Sir C
A grand bunch of lads, I'd say. Bowyer and Batty were terrific competitors, you'd have loved them on your team. Mills never did much for me but Alan Smith, if he hadn't had that appalling injury, would have gone on to be a magnificent footballer.
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."