"It changed my life because I knew that wasn't the life for me."
Ian Wright is visiting Pentonville Prison, just over a mile from Arsenal's Emirates Stadium and their former ground of Highbury, where the striker became a Gunners legend.
The former England player is reflecting on his own experiences of prison, when, aged 19, he was jailed for 32 days in Chelmsford Prison in 1982 for failing to pay fines and driving without a licence.
"Football saved my life," says 60-year-old Wright. "People say you've got to get yourself on the straight and narrow, but it's very hard, especially when you're in prison with nowhere to go.