BT Sport Film’s latest documentary brought back together two pals from a South London council estate who made it all the way to the top of English football, even though they actually got there by pointedly different paths. For one of them, his opportunity to be able to reflect on his achievements was all too tragically short.
‘Rocky & Wrighty: From Brockley To The Big Time’, on one level, is an all too belated celebration of the life of David Rocastle. As his former Arsenal chairman David Dein remembered saying of the young trialist: ‘He could be Brazilian.