When a young lad called David Rocastle started training with Arsenal’s youth team, a new member of the board was particularly excited.
David Dein joined Arsenal as vice-chairman in 1983, a year after Rocastle was scouted during a school game, and would regularly attend youth matches in the morning before watching the seniors at Highbury.
A month after first seeing Rocastle, Dein could not stop waxing lyrical about the playmaker.
He would return home and say to his wife and kids: ‘He could be a Brazilian player and he comes from Lewisham!