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Winning the league at White Hart Lane in 1971.

Fairs Cup and into the double winning season. I was only nine but I remember it pretty clearly.

After yet another Wembley disappointment (Swindon League Cup) Frank converts to centre back.

Frank's early years at Arsenal make fascinating reading. I had no idea that the Billy Wright era was so shambolic or the impact of Bertie Mee's appointment with the assistance of Dave Sexton.

Frank signs for the Arsenal - October 1964

A bit of editing needed as that's twice we've had the Shankly tapping up story and the pay disputes with Leicester alongside Gordon Banks.

The dark arts of European defenders in the early 1960s

1961 FA Cup Final, Spurs 2 Leicester 0. Frank worked the Friday morning shift white-washing a cellar in Leicester before cycling back to his digs. He then cycled to Filbert Street and jumped on to the bus.

Frank makes the first team at Leicester but then suffers a serious injury.

The Glasgow reminiscences are No Mean City stuff.

I picked this up in a second hand book shop recently. I loved the Arsenal FC double winning side and so Frank was a real hero to me as a boy. This is a really enjoyable read so far.