Tim Sherwood is remembering the moment, almost 20 years ago, when he heard Bruce Rioch’s voice at the end of the phone and thought that his dream move to Arsenal was finally going through. Discussions had been going on for a while between the pair and Sherwood, who had won the Premier League title with Blackburn Rovers 12 months earlier, was waiting to be told to report to Arsenal’s training ground for a medical. “We lived in Harpenden, in Hertfordshire, and it was summer time and I’d been talking to [Bruce],” Sherwood recalls. “The deal, for me, was done. We never spoke money, but it was Arsenal. I thought he was calling me to say what time to go to [Arse nal training ground]...
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