I'd spent 10 years policing over at the Arsenal Football Club.

In them days we didn't have tasers, the sprays and all.

We just had a bit of stick called a truncheon.

You know, we enjoyed that.

The old adrenaline was pumping and we would look forward to those games, you know.

I thought I was invincible.

One game changed my attitude really, and they had a big red smoke bomb. And I was the was invincible. One game changed my attitude really and they had a big red smoke bomb and I was the first

copper in the middle of all that and I got surrounded when they saw me through the smoke and

saw a copper they started attacking me rather than each other and I was spat on punched.

I knew if I went down, I was in trouble.

Welcome, everybody. This is Simon Gilbo with Inspired. Great to be back from another

fantastic week of encouragement. If you're new to us on Inspired, it's all about meeting

mates of mine from different walks of life. You got great stories stories that encourage and stir

faith and yeah we relentlessly bombarded by negativity in the press bad news

induces fear and anxiety and depression and yeah and so we're coming against

that in the next hour you're going to be stirred I've no doubt because I've heard

Simon pinchback story many a time.

He's a brilliant communicator.

So Simon was in the Met, Metropolitan Police for 23, 24 years.

Actually, so my sister Rebecca and her now husband, Sean, they met in the Met.

They're still serving as well.

So you had all that time and then it went a bit per-shaped towards the end and

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