“Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.”
Oh yes, I remember with some pleasure the occasions upon which the local oiks from a comprehensive school thought it would be fun to take on the toffs. We whooped their arses.
What you people fail to understand is that a regime of cold baths, cross-country runs and buggery, fuelled by thin gruel and stagnant water, makes us hard, hard people.
Bring it.
The old formalities have gone, C. Your good self, Nigel, Roger and Malcolm would be denied employing Marquis of Queensbury etiquette, prior to administering a sound thrashing and be shanked thirty or forty times before you had time to remove your watches. ☹️