If you are my age (mid-30s) or a little older and you’re an Arsenal fan (if you’re reading this, there’s an excellent chance that you are), Ian Wright is probably your hero. The constituent parts that make up a ‘club legend’ are complex and difficult to define, but some players merit the tag by consensus and there can be no doubt that Wright emphatically meets that mark. I started going to Arsenal regularly in 1992 and it’s difficult to overstate how much Wright came to define my early Arsenal memories. Supporting a club is, broadly, about attachment really, about belonging to something bigger than yourself but that becomes immediately bound up in your personal identity. Every...
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