I had my passport confiscated on a train going through Yugoslavia in 1987. I'm not sure I was expecting to be shot it but I was a little bit concerned. They probably thought I was a German spy, and not without reason as things would later turn out.
*Were* you a German spy then?
"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."