Peter Storey

“The first tackle was to let him know I was there. The second was to let him know I'd be there all afternoon.”

“If I'd been a soldier in the war, I'd have been a hero. But I was a footballer in the '70s and so I was a villain.”

“We were a drinking side, most of us were single, we had nowhere else to go and we all met up in a pub near the ground.”

“You could say I was a hard man. But I was fair. I never went out to deliberately injure anyone.”

“The Double season was unbelievable. We just felt we couldn't lose. The spirit in the dressing room was something special.”

“Arsenal was my family. The club, the players, the fans... they meant everything to me.”

“I have regrets, of course. Who doesn't? But I lived my life the way I wanted to.”

“I didn't care who I was playing against. I'd go through my own mother to win a football match.”

“Modern players wouldn't last five minutes in our day. It's a non-contact sport now.”