R.I.P John Roberts, 1946-2016.

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R.I.P John Roberts, 1946-2016.

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A member of the double winning squad of 1971. I remember him as a very decent Player and man. Condolences to his family. R.I.P. :barscarf: :barscarf:

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Yup was a good player and a good man ! Should have stayed with us but we moved him on .

RIP and Best wishes to his family !

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RIP John

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Sad news. RIP.

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rip

wasnt he the player who started the fight with lazio :mrgreen:

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RIP

Before my time but a respected player.

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I thiought the lazio affair was started by them but taken up by eddie kelly b4 they all went bonkers !
I've had a chat with Frank McLintock on this one @ the Woble 88 Cup final and he reckons it was mental !
John was a big lad and Welsh who in my experience never knowingly walk away from a scrap !

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Herd wrote:I thiought the lazio affair was started by them but taken up by eddie kelly b4 they all went bonkers !
I've had a chat with Frank McLintock on this one @ the Woble 88 Cup final and he reckons it was mental !
John was a big lad and Welsh who in my experience never knowingly walk away from a scrap !
It's the Oirish in them. :D 8)

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Always sad to hear of an ex-Arsenal player passing away, even though he was before my time.

Condolences to his friends & family.

RIP John.

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DB10GOONER wrote:
Herd wrote:I thiought the lazio affair was started by them but taken up by eddie kelly b4 they all went bonkers !
I've had a chat with Frank McLintock on this one @ the Woble 88 Cup final and he reckons it was mental !
John was a big lad and Welsh who in my experience never knowingly walk away from a scrap !
It's the Oirish in them. :D 8)
The funniest was that even Bertie Mee got stuck in once the fists started to fly !

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Herd wrote:
The funniest was that even Bertie Mee got stuck in once the fists started to fly !
Reckon Mee could handle himself, he was an ex-Army PT instructor.

Jon Spurling wrote a paragraph about it in "Rebels For The Cause" where he reckoned John Roberts was in the thick of the action.

Also found this on the Guardian website

http://www.theguardian.com/football/200 ... h-part-one

"It is not uncommon for a fight among footballers to be referred to as "handbags". It is less common for it to actually be caused by handbags. But that, apparently, is what was behind the 1970 fight between Arsenal and Lazio players in and outside a Rome restaurant after a 2–2 Fairs Cup draw. The Italian club presented the visiting players with souvenir leather bags, which were derided as "effeminate". Arsenal's players started to throw the bags around the restaurant, but then a Lazio player grabbed one, threw it into Bob McNab's face and, in the words of Arsenal's Frank McLintock, "we all piled in. For a while, it was like the wild west". Uefa swiftly banned post-match socialising. "Looking back," the Arsenal defender John Roberts said later, "those purses were lovely." SB

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