David O’Leary: Arsenal’s Double Dream, Talks to Join United & Nights Out with Roy | STF EP 129
Stick to Football
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4.2 • 969 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to Stick to Football, brought to you by ARNE.
In this episode, Gary Neville, Paul Scholes, Jill Scott, Roy Keane and Ian Wright are joined by Arsenal’s record appearance holder David O’Leary to talk all things football and reflect on his incredible career.
The team look back on some of David’s former teammates for club and country, including Tony Adams, Mick McCarthy and of course Wrighty himself.
David also opens up on his time with Ireland, sharing stories from some unforgettable nights out alongside Roy and the squad.
Attention then turns to Arsenal, where David reflects on his time at the club, including a brilliant FA Cup story, before giving his thoughts on the current side as they chase Premier League and Champions League glory.
The episode finishes with a look back on David’s managerial career at Leeds, as well as talks over a possible move to Manchester United in 2001.
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00:00 Into
06:22 Tony Adams Leadership
11:41 Jack Charlton Tough Love
18:42 Heineken ‘Fan of the Match’
30:57 Nights Out With Ireland
33:27 Arsenal Memories
37:24 Arteta And Modern Arsenal
43:06 Leeds Job
51:44 Rio Ferdinand Deal
01:05:48 United Succession
01:10:58 Modern Football
01:16:01 Arsenal Title Run In Verdict
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| 0:00.0 | Just before we get started, a quick thanks to our partners and clothing. We hope you enjoy the show. |
| 0:09.4 | Here we go. This is better. |
| 0:15.3 | Oh, I love these sweet things. Get them away from me. |
| 0:21.2 | Popcorn. |
| 0:24.1 | Roy, you'll have to help me with the chronological order |
| 0:26.4 | of the island thing, island tournaments and stuff. |
| 0:29.3 | Do you what I say? |
| 0:30.4 | Chronolo? |
| 0:31.3 | You play with him now? |
| 0:32.9 | Yeah, they're just like, briefly, Dave was obviously. |
| 0:35.9 | I didn't realize until I was reading things. He sort of fell out with Jack Charlton a little bit. I think so, yeah, because he passed it. He passed it into midfield and Jack was like, Passed it to you. Hello to him. David would have played in, obviously, played in 1990s. You remember that penalty. Peltie, yeah. Peltry, yeah. It's just mighty, yeah. Yeah. I take and dish. He's got a decisive penalty, remember that penalty? Yeah. Yeah. It's my tea here. |
| 0:55.0 | I don't take a day. He scored a decisive penalty, wasn't it? Yeah. Against the name of the team. Do you remember the team? Oh, I like the, yeah. Like that, Jill. Thank you. Oh. Nice, Jill. Is this our tea? Hey, D-Bone. Yes. official i've got you david how are you hello yurko hello you're good to see you're good |
| 1:13.8 | later thank you yeah Debone. Yes. David, how are you? Hello, are you OK? Hello, you're OK. Good to see you. Good to see you. Hey, David. Good to see you, mate. It's all good to see you, mate. You're having a Tio, yeah? Please, yeah. And I'll have the honey like you, mate. Right. You never are you too. Do you play together? Yeah. Yeah, Dave's last game was the FA Cup final, isn't it? So he won, yeah, he went out on a high. Against him? Chefrey Wednesday. It's a classic. Remember that we went to play. Classic. The most boring cup final for Saturday. Bore the pants off everybody. Had to go back and do it for Thursday night. Did Chris Woods make a mistake for Sheffa Wednesday? Was? Was it Chris Woods or was he called the keeper? Did the keep for the Sheffa Wednesday? Andy Linnickon. No, he was close. He just knocked it up into the goal. Nice fella, quiet fella. Yeah. Not like righty when he arrived at the club in that way. Stick to football is brought to you by Arm Clothing. |
| 2:04.1 | He picked the team the following day, |
| 2:07.1 | said the lad from Arsenal, you're playing. |
| 2:09.8 | You pass to Mick McCarthy |
| 2:11.5 | and he'll never play for Ireland again. |
| 2:13.2 | That attitude, you know. |
| 2:14.7 | If you ever came up to watch the Irish senior training |
| 2:16.8 | having been out all night, you were thinking, this is a pub team. Jack would be on the news, he went, tell you what, I've never seen the players look so shy. For all, he thinks he's the manager of Manning United. But when you get it officially, you've got to make all these other decisions, it's a bigger thing. I see Jimmy gripes about me and oh Jimmy came back |
| 2:35.1 | and demanded |
| 2:36.1 | money that |
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