This story just makes you feel even worse for Wayne Shaw… Arsenal won back-to-back FA Cups between 2002 and 2003, with Ray Parlour featuring in both finals. Parlour scored a brilliant solo goal to break the deadlock in the 2002 final, to help Arsenal on their way to a 2-0 win over Chelsea. It is widely regarded as the finest moment of his career and it helped establish him as one of the club's most popular players ever. However, it was another FA Cup final incident which increased Parlour's popularity with Gunners teammate Francis Jeffers and his friends. According to former Arsenal goalkeeper Graham Stack, Jeffers (or at least many of his day-tripping pals from Liverpool) placed a...
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