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Caught In Time
Featured
in the back of the Sports section of the Sunday Times,
the Caught in Time
series features a picture of a famous team, offers a
profile of each player, and answers the question 'Where
are they now?'.
Arsenal
win the League and Cup Double, 1971
by Greg
Struthers
There was
no sweeter place for Arsenal to win the first half of the
league and FA Cup Double than White Hart Lane, Their
final league game of the season was away to their fierce
rivals, Tottenham. A win or a goalless draw, and the
Gunners would pip Leeds for the liile. Spurs had their
chances, bul a header from Ray Kennedy three minutes from
the end secured a 1-0 victory for Arsenal and sent half
of north London wild with delight.
Five days later Arsenal travelled to Wembley 10 play
Liverpool in the FA Cup final. The match went to
cxlra-iime and a goal from Liverpool's Steve Heighway
looked like denying the Gunners the Double. A scrambled
effort saw them equalise through Eddie Kelly before a
20-yard shot from Charlie George gave Arsenal a 2-1 win.
The Double was theirs.
1 Pat Rice (Arsenal)
Rice, who won 49 caps for Northern Ireland, had a
distinguished career at Arsenal after joining in 1967. He
spent 14 seasons there, making 397 league appearances at
right-back before moving to Watford. He returned as a
coach in 1984 and has been involved in all three of the
dub's Double triumphs, as a player in 1971 and a coach in
1998 and 2002. He is assistant manager to Arscne Wenger
2 Peter Storey (Arsenal)
The winner of 19 England caps between 1971 and 1973.
Storey played 391 league games for the Gunners after
joining as an apprentice in 1962. He then moved to
Fulham. In 1979 he was fined for running a brothel in
east London. A year later he was jailed for three years
for financing a plot to counterfeit gold coins, and
subsequently .spent further time in jail for attempting
to import pornographic videos. He is a driver in south
London
3 John Roberts (Arsenal)
RohLTts began his career with Abercynon Athletic and
joined Swansea in 1964. He made his mark as a striker
with 16 goals in 36 games and then spent a couple of
seasons at Northampton. Arsenal came calling in 1969, In
three years Roberts made 59 League appearances, scoring
four goals. He won 22 caps for Wales and had spells with
Birmingham, Wrexham and Hull. He is a driving instructor
in Chester
4 Frank McLintock (Arsenal)
The captain of the team that won the Double. McLintock
started out at Leicester before moving to Highbury,
becoming one of the few defenders to win the Footballer
of the Year award. He won nine caps for Scotland and
finished his playing days at QPR, moving into management
with Leicester and Brentford. He also became an agent and
set up the Cash Converter chain of shops. He is a
television pundit
5 Bob Wilson (Arsenal)
Born in Chesterfield. Wilson joined Arsenal from Wolves
in March 1963. During the next 10 years he made 234
league appearances between the posts. An England
schoolboy international, he won
two caps for Scotland. He was a goal-keeping coach at
Highbury when the club won the Double in 1998 and 2002
and is now a television presenter
6 Geoff Barnett (Arsenal)
An England school and youth goalkeeper, Bamett joined
Evcrton as an apprentice in 1965, making 10 first-team
league appearances in two seasons before joining Arsenal
in October 1969. He provided cover for Wilson, but played
in only 49 games in six years, although he did play in
the 1972 FA Cup final in which Arsenal lost to Leeds, He
runs a pub in Cheshire
7 Charlie George (Arsenal)
George signed schoolboy terms with the Gunners at 13 and
is still at the club. He made his debut aged 18 in 1969,
but was injured during much of the Double season with a
broken ankle. He earned only one cap for England after a
run-in with the national coach, Don Revie. He also had
spells at Derby, Southampton, Nottingham Forest and
Bournemouth. George ran a pub at New Milton in Hampshire
before returning to north London, where he was pan-owner
of a garage. He is a match-day host and helps run the
Arsenal museum
8 John Radford (Arsenal)
A striker who spent 12 years at Highbury during a
distinguished career that saw him win two caps for
England. Radford joined the Gunners as an apprentice in
1964 and scored 1 1 1 league goals in 379 games. He was
manager of Bishop's Stortford and is a chauffeur for an
executive car-hire company
9 Ray Kennedy (Arsenal)
Kennedy joined Arsenal as an apprentice in 1968, scoring
53 goals in 15S league games as a bustling forward. After
six seasons he was signed by Liverpool for £ 180,000.
Bob Paisley moved him to left midfield, where he thrived,
winning 17 caps for England. Kennedy, who also played for
Swansea and Hartleppol, was diagnosed with Parkin-son's
disease at the age of 34
10 George Graham (Arsenal)
A robust midfielder who had played for Aston Villa and
Chelsea, Graham was manager Bertie Mee's first signing in
1966. He spent six seasons at Highbury, scoring 59 goals
in 227 league games. Also played for Manchester United,
Portsmouth and Crystal Palace. Went into management at
Millwall before filling the trophy cabinet at Highbury
during one of Arsenal's most successful eras. Is now a
media pundit
11 Bob McNab (Arsenal)
A left-back who won four caps for England, McNab missed
only two of the 64 games in the Double-winning season. He
first played lor H udders field, the town of his birth,
joining Arsenal in 1966 and establishing himself in the
back four. He played in 277 league games during the nest
nine years. McNab had one season at Wolves before playing
for San Anlonio in Texas. He is a coach in America
12 Peter Marinello (Arsenal)
A peripheral member of the squad, Marinello was signed
for £100,000 from Hibernian in 1970, He was hailed as
the new George Best, but had an unhappy time ai Highbury.
He played for Portsmouth, Motherwell and Fulham before
moving to !he US, He ended his playing career at Hearts
and became a publican in Edinburgh. He then settled in
Bournemouth
13 Sammy Nelson (Arsenal)
Signed as a 17-year-old winger in 1966, Nelson
subsequently moved to full-back. Landed in hot water when
he bared his bottom to the North Bank after scoring a
rare goal in a moment of fun that epitomised his
popularity. He won 51 caps for Northern Ireland. He lives
on the south coast of England and works for an insurance
company
14 Peter Simpson (Arsenal)
Born in Great Yarmouth, Simpson was a commanding central
defender. He played in 370 league games for the Gunners
and 886 matches at all levels for them. He owns a haulage
company
15 Eddie Kelly (Arsenal)
The Scottish midficlder made his debut for Arsenal in
1968 and added his name to the history books three years
later when he became the first substitute to score in an
FA Cup final. In eight years at the club he made 211
appearances. He also played for QPR, Leicester and Notts
County, He is a double-glazing salesman in Paigmon
16 George Armstrong (Arsenal)
Armstrong signed as a 17-year-old in 1961 and was seldom
out of the learn. An energetic runner who played on both
wings, he also played for Leicester and Stockport before
coaching. He was enticed back to Highbury in 1990 by his
old teammate George Graham. Armstrong collapsed ai
Arsenal's training ground in October 2000 and died of a
brain haemorrhage
From The
Sunday Times 22 May 2005, p. 26
Sports Section.
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