As we're unlikely to see terraces again at football, this is the virtual equivalent where you can chat to your hearts content about all football matters and, obviously, Arsenal in particular. This forum encourages all Gooners to visit and contribute so please keep it respectful, clean and topical.
DB10GOONER wrote:Brilliant interview and fantastic piece with his old teacher. Heart warming.
I loved Wrighty as a player; his passion, his skill, the unpredictability, the way he gave everything, the way he wound up oppo fans and players, everything about him.
When he became a TV "celebrity" I felt so let down and started to dread seeing him on TV.
But that interview really sums up the real Wrighty; an honest old skool footballer that realises how lucky he was to get to where he did and is grateful to those that helped him get there and just wears his heart on his sleeve. In the sometimes dreadful last years of our beloved George's reign Ian Wright was quite often the ONLY bright spark at The Arsenal. The man often won games almost single-handedly. I watch his old DVD's and it still amazes me how good he was.
As has been mentioned by others, I loved Ian Wright growing up (I was 11 when he signed) and came to worship him! I had all 4 walls in my room covered in Arsenal posters (even the formation on the ceiling from the player pictures you used to get in the middle of the programme) but one wall was the "Ian Wright wall"..used to pretend to be him all the time playing (depsite my mates saying "Al, you're a tall skinny white bloke, you can't be Ian Wright!")
I met him once after the Palace game in 1993 (3-0 he scored the 1st I think) the week before the cup final and got his autograph, I'd never felt so happy and excited
That video just really goes to show exactly what we could all see on the pitch that here is a normaly bloke like me and you and yet he's out there doing the business and feeling it as much as we did.
I was gutted when he left (no more IAN WRIGHT WRIGHT WRIGHT) but I guess lucky to have seen him play so many times.
mikeyb772001 wrote:just watched that video all teh way throgh! Tear to teh fucking eye
i love this man! Fucking legend
Totally agree its quite amazing how open he is considering all the media training and stuff people have these days. A true legend
]I read his book but nothing was an insightful as that interview.
It’s an amazing story and you can see now how much he loved us and still does. He was part of the club and the fans felt a bond with him, something I have never felt since.
Rags to riches in every way. I just can’t understand how he gets slated , these people need to watch that interview and then they will know what being arsenal is all about.
Stayed up until 4am with Rocky just talking about Arsenal. Imagine that these days?
I remember leaving Highbury in wrigthys first 2 seasons and he would be hanging out the window and shouting down to us as we waited for the train line. My fondest memory was when we beat Southampton end of season and he run to the first row of the north bank everyone hugging him when we beat jug ears for the golden boot!
Just wish wrighty was still at the club in some capacity.
donaldo wrote:I hate it when some Gooners slag off Wrighty and TA6.They care about the club with a passion thats why you dont get the same bull you get from other ex players
This guy is an out and out legend.A player who played for the shirt.Wenger did the dirty on him in 98 when we were 2-0 up in the cup final and he didnt bring him on for even one minute.
Agreed. The same mugs who will slag TA and Wrighty, two absolute legends (one of the best English centre halves of the last 30 years, and one of the most talented English strikers of the last 25 years - shits all over Owen) will 30 secs later suck Cazorla off, or describe how wonderful Koscielny is
It's almost as if there wasn't a great club there before Lord Wenger.
Oh ooops.....there was!
donaldo wrote:I hate it when some Gooners slag off Wrighty and TA6.They care about the club with a passion thats why you dont get the same bull you get from other ex players
This guy is an out and out legend.A player who played for the shirt.Wenger did the dirty on him in 98 when we were 2-0 up in the cup final and he didnt bring him on for even one minute.
Agreed. The same mugs who will slag TA and Wrighty, two absolute legends (one of the best English centre halves of the last 30 years, and one of the most talented English strikers of the last 25 years - shits all over Owen) will 30 secs later suck Cazorla off, or describe how wonderful Koscielny is
It's almost as if there wasn't a great club there before Lord Wenger.
Oh ooops.....there was!
donaldo wrote:I hate it when some Gooners slag off Wrighty and TA6.They care about the club with a passion thats why you dont get the same bull you get from other ex players
This guy is an out and out legend.A player who played for the shirt.Wenger did the dirty on him in 98 when we were 2-0 up in the cup final and he didnt bring him on for even one minute.
Agreed. The same mugs who will slag TA and Wrighty, two absolute legends (one of the best English centre halves of the last 30 years, and one of the most talented English strikers of the last 25 years - shits all over Owen) will 30 secs later suck Cazorla off, or describe how wonderful Koscielny is
It's almost as if there wasn't a great club there before Lord Wenger.
Oh ooops.....there was!
Don't be silly. Arsenal FC were formed in 1996 by Sith Lord Arsene Venger. That's why it's called ARSENal FC.
Babatunde wrote:
Agreed. The same mugs who will slag TA and Wrighty, two absolute legends (one of the best English centre halves of the last 30 years, and one of the most talented English strikers of the last 25 years - shits all over Owen) will 30 secs later suck Cazorla off, or describe how wonderful Koscielny is
It's almost as if there wasn't a great club there before Lord Wenger.
Oh ooops.....there was!
Personally I'd go as far as to say there was a BETTER club before Lord Wenger than the one that exists now. Wenger has played a big part in certain things I cherished being destroyed. And a big part in the club selling its soul to the greed in modern football.
It was nice to see a brief glimpse of Highbury in the Wright video though. I was lucky enough to be able go in there one midweek afternoon when it was empty like that and it was just like standing in a cathedral. All Chelsea's and Man City's money combined couldnt build somewhere as unique and as special as Highbury because money does not and cannot buy that sort of thing. When you have something like that you do not let go of it. Not for anything.
Very moving interview. Still think his views on football are moronic more often then not but can't argue with his story or his genuine love for the club.
What I still don't understand is people who get all uppity because Wrighty and Adams dare to voice their genuine concerns in public, over the sorry state of the club. They're genuine Arsenal fans that are hurt/angry over the direction they see this club heading in, and they've been proved 100% correct in their criticisms.
Yet all Arsene's rebel forces get all angry and bitchy if the news given to them by these legends isn't the news they want to hear?
Suppose it's better to listen to another interview full of pro-Arsenal/Wenger love by some clueless fuckwit nobody like Frimpong eh?
What Adams and Wrighty won and achieved as ballers is more than any of this entire group of overpaid, overrated and undertalented pile will ever achieve.
FACT
