Arsenal legend Ian Wright has revealed that he was almost a Liverpool fans growing up before pledging his allegiances to the Gunners.
Wright is Arsenal's second all-time top goal-scorer, bettered only by Thierry Henry's effort of 175 league goals.
He scored 113 Premier League goals and lifted the 1997 title with the Gunners and now resides as a club legend, alongside his punditry duties.
Things could have been so different, though, had David Rocastle not made his breakthrough at Highbury.
Rocastle went on to make 200 appearances for Arsenal in an eight-year spell with the club and his emergence through their academy convinced Wright they were the team to follow.
Liverpool's dominance throughout the 70s and 80s made them England's most popular side, winning titles and European Cups at a canter.
As a result, Wright almost pledged himself as a Kopite but instead followed Arsenal after the emergence of Rocastle.
“I always had a leaning towards Liverpool when I was younger," he said on his new podcast, Wrighty’s House.
"I probably would have supported Liverpool, but once David Rocastle went to Arsenal in the 80s when he was in the youth team, everybody followed, so the whole estate followed Arsenal.”
That decision ultimately shaped Wright's career, which saw him play with the likes of Dennis Bergkamp and other Arsenal stars.
“What made me realise I was playing with the cream," Wright said on Bergkamp.
" They played us together in training and a lot of the balls that he played to me at the first few training sessions were hitting me on the back of the leg because my run should have been right for him to get it to me.
"The pressure I felt thinking this guy’s so way in front, I’m still running forward when I should have stopped or because those players don’t make mistakes in passes.
"So what I had to realise, was that I had to watch him, and watch the defender, because the ball was hitting me in the back of the legs.”
