With all this present day chit-chat about “Wenger Out!”, I’d like to offer a little perspective, stimulate some debate, and hopefully cheer everyone up a bit. You always read these polls about who were the best players to ever put on an Arsenal shirt, which always infuriate me: you’re always left with this niggling feeling of “Aah…those were the days…why can’t the current team be as good as we used to be?”
But you never read a poll asking for nominations as to the worst players to ever put on an Arsenal shirt? Now, if we ever focused on that question, that would offer a whole lot of perspective and I am sure many readers would begin to feel a lot better about the current crop and the directiion it is heading….
Goalkeeper
Defence
Midfield
Forwards
Answers on a postcard please! (Or alternatively fill in the response below)
Untold Arsenal on Facebook here
History of Arsenal including the series on the failures of Herbert Chapman
Making the Arsenal – the book of Arsenal death and rebirth
Jeff Blockley gets my vote of no confidence. In his last ‘performance’ for Coventry, he lobbed his own keeper from outside the box. This inspired Bertie Mee to pay out top money for him and Don Revie to give him his international debut the following week. What Mee and Revie saw has always baffled me. It’s one of those rare cases where Billy Wright was spot on. He released Blockley circa 1964, because he thought he was ‘too casual.’ Only for him to turn up like a bad penny, 8 years later. Blockley was a complete clot and a mistake was never far away. When he arrived, Mee got rid of a top class defender in John Roberts and Frank McLintock, was so unsettled he pushed for a move. If you’re looking for the start of the dark years in the 70’s, they begin when we signed Blockley.