Hale End

Community outreach is also planned, showing how the Arsenal family continues to grow beyond North London.

At Hale End, the under 18s beat Birmingham City three-two for their fourth consecutive win.

The under 21s drew two-two with Sunderland, while the under 19s lost three-two to Lille in the UEFA Youth League.

Arsenal Women are looking to bounce back after defeats to Chelsea and Manchester City, with Birmingham City next up in the league.

Although they all got snapped up, obviously.

Uh, this guy, we were watching Miles Lewis-Skelly, and he was going, he was talking about how he loves Miles and how he might be the best thing to come out of Hale End, uh, in the last 20 years, is what he said to me.

And I went, "Well, hang on-

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The goals were great last night, by the way.

Uh, um, Adrian, you brought up, um, the fullbacks.

Um, yes, Miles Lewis-Skelly, you know, we, we know what a talent he is and, uh, may well be, may well turn out to be the best player to ever come out of Hale End, [laughs] as the chaps in history said.

Listen, he's an, he's an inc- extraordinary talent, can play in a number of positions.

I feel like I haven't always been the big lad, so I've had to wait each year, keep developing and keep growing.

Hale End has been a great place for me to enjoy my football, keep practising and get better every day.

There are actually still a good number of players here from when I first joined.

I'd say there are probably four or five of us.

He d-typifies everything I love about Arsenal.

Hale End academy all the way through to...

And you can disagree with me.

Everyone can disagree with me.

Saka's story at Arsenal is already legendary.

A Hale End boy who develops through a rebuild, carries the team for a while, goes on to captain the club, and is eventually part of the side that wins their first Premier League trophy for 22 years, returning Arsenal to the top of football with a target of a dynasty to come.

He is arguably my favorite Arsenal player ever.

I literally love the bloke, and I can see that some of my maybe naivety or unwillingness to even go near this conversation might come from there.

It's not

like, you know, we're not blessed with Ballon d'Or winners in the whole of England, never mind them coming out of Hale End.

It was quite a statement.

But his skill...