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Arsenal legend details harrowing arrest that threatened to end career before it even started

Paul Davis has had an illustrious career at Arsenal, winning trophies and becoming one of the club's most talented generations.

The former Gunners midfielder starred alongside the likes of David His Rocastle, Michael Thomas, Kevin Campbell and later Ian Wright.

However, when he started working for Arsenal as a boy, he was the club's only black player. In the late 1970s and his early 1980s, English football and society were very different.

In his book Paul Davis: Arsenal and After, he is arrested, put in solitary confinement and appears in court for appearing in the reserves. It tells a shocking story.

When I started training at Arsenal, I was away from home in Stockwell, away from familiar faces and places I knew. I was the only black player at the club.

As part of his youth team, he made some good friends, but there were moments when he cut ties with the young people around him, be it food or music tastes, or humor he didn't share. did. A joke that had racial superiority and that most other people laughed at, but I didn't find it very funny. Joining Arsenal, naturally, as a young black Londoner, I found myself drawn to our common culture with them.

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Davis enjoyed a glorious spell in a north London club

The thing is: you can stay out of trouble as long as you like. You can, but what if trouble comes and finds you? I was a first year apprentice at Arsenal around 1978 or 1979, when I was only 17 years old. There was a reserve team game on Saturday afternoon and I went to a party with Chris White. Chrissy and I walked home. We care about our own business.

Suddenly I stumbled across a scene from an episode of the TV show The Sweeney. Tires are squealing and blue lights are flashing. 3 or 4 police cars. Police piled up from them and came running towards us.

cried one of them: we are facing a wall. This was how stopping and searching worked. And they say, "I saw you trying to break into that car." Obviously we weren't.

But they wouldn't let it go and we were put in a cell for the night. But they went ahead and charged me. Summoned to appear before Highbury Magistrate's Court.

That was the scariest thing. In fact, being in court. Even then I knew what was at stake. This could have ended my career before it started. If you're found guilty, you're done with Arsenal.

I told the club that the police were wrong. And they believed me. I mean, I had a good lawyer to speak for me before a magistrate. He stood up and began to unravel the police story.

Arsenal's Kevin Campbell, Davis, David Rocastle, Lee Dixon

At that time, the judge dismissed the case out of court. I have been struggling with this for 4 months. And the whole business was over in a minute or two. There are no cases to answer.

Arsenal has provided me with legal counsel, support and sound advice. But then I really started thinking. What if I wasn't a football player playing for Arsenal? What if I was some other black teenager on the way home from partying that night? What happened then?

My son Duayne's relationship with Jordan has always been driven by his love for them and is based on my own experience. The environment I grew up in was very different from theirs and they are aware of it.

I feel I can make a difference in the game. We work on coach education, coach development, and all the while promoting diversity and especially encouraging black players to qualify.

Real ability is lost in the game because many people who could have had a chance did not. We must embrace other perspectives and drive change together. We are all affected by the environment we create.

Another way is to be like those who, when sick, put off going to the doctor until it is too late. That's the long-standing way of football.

Silent Leader Southgate

Gareth Southgate is a great example of a new approach to coaching, leadership and management. In the 80's and 90's when I was still playing, Gareth could have gotten a job as a coach or manager. there were a lot of He speaks too softly. he's not tough enough. He has no authority to coach international players. However, Gareth's intelligence and his commitment to both football's principles and human values ​​prove the doubters wrong.

Gaza, Kettering, Wanted

I've met a lot of decent people in football. But I've also met people I don't really understand. A friend recently showed me an article he found on the Internet. The story was about a man named Imran Ladakh. He was found missing in Birmingham for contempt of court where he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment.

He was wealthy and a big fan ofTottenham. In October 2005, he appointed Paul his Gascoigne Kettering manager of his town. I met Gaza on a coaching course and he brought me in as an assistant.

But where Paul really took a toll on Kettering was his relationship with his owner. Imraan was new to soccer. he wanted to know everything. "Who's on the team?".It all really hit the pole.

He couldn't handle it and stopped answering the phone. Mr. Ladakh fired Paul and asked if I would take over as interim manager. I said no. And that was it: an extraordinary experience. An unusual few months.

Paul Gascoigne of Kettering Town (

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Title night at Anfield

We are confident that the 1989 title night at Anfield will never be repeated. I'm here.

It's been hard for me, Nile Quinn, Brian Marwood, and everyone else besides the injured party. Our tickets were not in the directors box. They were at the end of Anfield Road with their fans. All three of us him were wearing navy blue club his blazers.

It was one to zero and the clock was ticking. Running over the railing before the game ended he figured it was worth climbing onto the track.

The stewards didn't have it. But the Arsenal supporters around us understood what was going on and in the end we got our way. Without them we would have been outside Anfield Road and missed Michael Thomas' goal. Can you imagine. It would have stolen an entirely different memory of that famous night.

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