While most football glory rests primarily with strikers or midfielders, every club’s history includes legendary defenders whose names are almost sacred to fans. Of course, there are such players in Arsenal’s 130-plus year history.
Leave aside the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries for now. Still, that leaves us with a long 100 years to focus on, and we have attempted to find the top ten defenders who have worn the London club’s jersey with the cannon in their emblem during that period.
If the footballer in question continued to play after 2000, it was essential to us that the more significant part of his career fell within the last century. You will find these memorable players in the following chapters.
Herbie Roberts played 335 games in eleven seasons at Arsenal, in which he scored five goals. He signed a professional contract for £200 in 1926 but played only a handful of games during his first two years at the club. However, in later years the incisive stopper became an indispensable part of the team.
A broken leg ended his playing career in 1937. He did not say goodbye to football. He served as coach of Arsenal’s reserve team. At the Second World War outbreak, he joined the army and was killed on 19 June 1944. He is the most famous of the club’s nine players who died in the war.
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