By Michael Thomas
Me and Rocky met before we became team-mates at Arsenal when we were both playing for South London Schools at around 11/12 years old. I only knew him on the field at that point.
When we joined the Arsenal youth team I was coming from Stockwell and Dave was coming from Brockley, he got the train to Waterloo and I was on the Victoria Line – most mornings we’d meet at Arsenal station and walk to the stadium from there.
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When we got to around 16/17 we were spending a lot more time off the field together.