With all the attention currently being lavished on Arsenal's sensational youngsters it seems now would the ideal time to focus on the life and times of one of their former young charges: tough-tackling midfielder David Hillier.
Hillier began his career by signing schoolboy forms with The Gunners way back in the halcyon days of 1984, when Torvil & Dean won Olypmic gold and the Ministry of Truth ensured all facts were historically accurate... Or something.
Anyways four years later Deadly Dave (as I like to call him) turned pro and within several years had become a regular under crazy bung-taking medal-machine George Graham. The future looked first class. Sadly at that point things started to go off the rails (I was trying for a train pun there, you know - "first class carrige", "off the rails"... Didn't really work, did it?)
Firstly in March 1995 he tested positive for illegal substance abuse then, the following year he thieved a suitcase in an airport carpark and, in the process, ensured that his future at Highbury was stolen away from him.
He subsequently went on to play for Portsmouth, Bristol Rovers and Barnet before hanging up his boots and joining the Fire Service.
So who knows; Bradley Wright-Phillips might just end up being a paramedic.
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