From a player's point of view, What's the talk in the dressing room? What are you guys seeing? I think

from a point, I think I'd be devastated as a player if all of everything I'd achieved over the last number of years was suddenly wiped away in this way.

Look, we on the pitch, we were brought together.

You fought by fair means, but obviously that wasn't happening.

This artificial injection of cash into the football club really kind of is a separate matter to us.

But when you walk the streets now as a player, everyone is going to be, I mean, how can you do that? Every time you take to the pitch, the pressure under these players.

I mean, we saw two England players make mistakes the other night.

This is not the same Manchester City now.

How does this compare? Did a

couple as a player.

Yeah.

Went to France, was with you in Japan.

Then, of course, started doing it.

South Africa was the first one I did as a broadcaster.

Did the World Cup final in Moscow, in Russia.

Really?

... was glugging out of?

Tastes beautiful, by the way.

So no, congratulations to the club firstly, Jim, to the players, the, the supporters.

Uh, it's been a lot of pain.

There's been a lot of commitment.

A lot of energy's gone into it.

You lose it three times.

Mm

Yeah.

Uh, and you know, I wanna talk a little bit about, uh, the fans, the entrance, what they did coming into the ground.

I got caught up in that last night.

It was amazing scenes outside.

Something we've lost a little bit at the new ground.

When we were back in the day at Highbury, Avenel Road, if you picture the scene, if you're an Arsenal fan, it was just so many people.

And yous, you came down that road, you just felt as one with the supporters, and they recreated that last night.

When you had your success at Arsenal on all those years, the, what, what's your view on that? Because I understand Wayne is to a degree, 'cause he won so much and he is a winner, but where, where's, where's your views on that? What do you, what's your thoughts?

I mean, what does it feel like to be a player in that environment?

Well, firstly, I was grateful to George Graham for bringing me back.

Then there was Bruce Verhoogt in between, who made me the captain.

I was the Arsenal player of the year, which was one of the things that, you know, when you go into those marble halls, you stand there as a young player and they point to the league title and they point to the player of the year and you need to do those.

It's like a box list.

So in that Bruce Verhoogt era, I'd done that.

But then there was a man that was going to turn up at the club, which was, I mean, Arsene Wenger arrived, I think his very first visit to Highbury on the tube.

I mean, what did it feel like to be part of that journey, to be part of that season?