October 18 – Record Breaker and Haynes Passes Away
We pay tribute to a true legend of the game and north London’s finest va-va-vooms his way into the Arsenal record books in today’s rummage through the OTFD vaults.
TO get a mention here at OTFD, let alone your own entry, you have to fulfil certain criteria. You must have had some impact on the world of football, and either been truly exceptional, truly awful, or just truly funny.
Today’s subject was an exceptional player, but his impact on the game went way beyond his footballing talent.
It was on this day in 2005 that Johnny Haynes, latterly of Fulham and England, died aged 71, following a road accident the previous day. Read the full story here.
IAN Wright and Thierry Henry never played together, the former having left Arsenal a year before the latter arrived in North London.
Between them the two strikers bagged an incredible 411 goals for the Gunners and it was on this day in 2005 that Henry took Wright’s crown as the club’s record goal scorer. Click here for the whole story.
Plenty more where these came from
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