Every one of those guys would run through a brickball for each other.

We had fantastic skill when I look at those boys.

Each and every one of them contributed.

They've given the best years of my life to Arsenal Football Club.

I was just told literally on the 18th of April 2007 to leave the club.

I think it was a combination of jealousy and fear.

Well, David, welcome to high performance. Thank you, Jake.

This is a podcast that helps people unlock their own version of high performance. I really want to talk about your book.

The chapter in your book that leapt out to me the most was entitled Life After Death. When you walked away from Arsenal, did it feel like a

death? Yes, it did. Tears of my eyes. 18th of April, 2007, 5 p.m. I won't forget that,

hurry. It was a shock. And it hurt because I'd given the best years of my life to Arsenal Football Club. And I still do because it's in the DNA. But it hurt because being in the inside track and seeing the club develop and we just opened up a new stadium. A few years earlier we'd been the invincibles.

There was a lot to do.

So I remember the day the news broke that you were walking away.

It was probably described as mutual consent, probably the way it worked.

I see already that you turn your nose about that.

I remember reading the BBC Sport website, and this is what it said.

Two days ago, there was a very secret board meeting at Arsenal, where it was made clear to Mr. Dean that he had to go.

Can you take us into that meeting and that day?

I know nothing about that meeting. I was just told literally at the 18th of April 2007 to leave the club.

What, you didn't have a meeting with the board that wasn't?

Not at all. When I analyzed it, you read the book, you read the chapter, I think it was a combination of jealousy and fear.

Perhaps because I was seen as the face of the club, perhaps that I had ideas

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