Episode 572 - Wrighty on Rocky
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🗓️ 31 March 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Today is the 19th anniversary of the passing of Arsenal legend David Rocastle. To talk about him, I'm joined by his great friend Ian Wright. We discuss the influence Rocky had on him as a player and a person; how the age difference didn't matter; what kind of a player he was; the emotional moment when he was sold to Leeds; and how Ian feels about the way David is remembered and held in such esteem by Arsenal fans all over the world – whether they saw him play or not.
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| 0:00.0 | Today is the 19th anniversary of the passing of an archstall legends David Rokassel and |
| 0:27.1 | to talk about his legacy and why he is a figure who is remembered with such love and fun as among |
| 0:33.7 | our archstall fans. There's only one person we could talk to today and that of course is Ian |
| 0:38.9 | Wright. Ian, how are you? Very good, Anja. Are you doing this morning? Not you good? Yeah, I'm not |
| 0:43.1 | bad. I'm not bad. You know, I think we're all doing our bit to stay out of mischief and stay out |
| 0:48.4 | of trouble in these strange times. How are you doing today? Because it must be a day which |
| 0:56.6 | evokes a lot of memories for you. It is, it is a day and it's a nice day, you know, the |
| 1:01.9 | sun's just like the shine, the kind of reflection, it gets easier every year. But what, |
| 1:07.0 | you know, you speak to the family, to the family at some stage, they speak all the time, |
| 1:12.0 | me and the girls and his ex misses, his sons are wearing it in the mirror, he's stuck in the |
| 1:16.8 | mirror, couldn't minute Ryan, but you know, it's like, like I say, for me, you know, it's |
| 1:21.7 | every day thing, you know, I think about him every single day. And what's good about being able |
| 1:27.3 | to post and let people know, Anja, and what I would like to urge Arsenal fans is to stop shouting |
| 1:33.2 | people down that don't know him. We're talking about a long time, you know, I mean, we're still |
| 1:38.6 | because of what I do and my presence on social media and that there's generations of |
| 1:44.3 | Arsenal fans, there's a generation of Arsenal fans that don't know, they never saw me play, |
| 1:48.2 | they only saw what was on there. So for people to be shouting people down because they say, |
| 1:53.4 | who is he? What's this thing? You know, I mean, they say, and I can you not know him, it's easy to not |
| 1:58.2 | know him. And this is why for me, it's pleasurable to be able to on a day like today, the anniversary, |
| 2:04.4 | like you're saying, like it's to put stuff up. And then when you look at Twitter and you see so many of the |
| 2:10.8 | things that people are posting as well, some of these skills, some of these goals, what he was about, |
| 2:16.2 | you know, coming through the youth team and everything, you know, the thing with it, Andrew, |
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