‘I crashed Arsenal’s team minibus – and someone nearly went through windscreen’
Parking the bus is always looked down on football, but Arsenal would have likely appreciated the presence of someone who could do just that.
Graham Stack, an ex-goalkeeper who came through the Gunners' ranks and even picked up a Premier League and FA Cup winner’s medal, once found himself behind the wheel of their team bus. Anybody with a driving licence has likely believed, at least once in their life, that they would be able to drive a bus.
After getting rid of his L-plates as a youngster, he decided to try his luck behind the wheel of the team coach. Let’s just say, they immediately decided not to let him do it again.
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“I was quite fortunate really because it didn’t come out in the press at the time,” Graham Stack exclusively told Ladbrokes Fanzone. “I was in the academy and a chap called Lawrence was our coach driver; I’d just passed my driving test and at the Arsenal training ground there was quite a long driveway.
“So I asked Lawrence if I could just drive the minibus down to the bottom of the drive. Lawrence always used to hit the break if someone was standing up, but he’d do it gently enough that you’d rock forward but not fall over, i.e. just sit down, and he used to do it to me quite a bit.
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“So, he was standing up at the time next to me to see what I was doing and I picked up slightly more speed than I anticipated and didn’t realise the weight of the coach and as we were getting half way down the drive I get up a bit more speed and thought I’d touch the breaks so Lawrence would jump forward, but obviously I hit the brakes slightly harder than I was expecting to and Lawrence has almost gone through the window screen. He smashed the window screen and broke his glasses. It was a scary moment I’ve got to say!
Luckily for him, Arsene Wenger or anybody else at the club chose to caution him – perhaps that was because they never found out. “I was worried for Lawrence anyway but also because he shouldn’t have let me drive the bus, but we got it back to Highbury and got the new glass fitted and it wasn’t really spoken about after that,” Stack added.
“Everyone tried to keep it under wraps, but I think nowadays with phones I’d have had no chance of keeping that quiet. I was quite fortunate back then that my teammates were willing to look after me and keep it nice and quiet.
“Our youth team was full of characters and that’s probably why we had the success that we did. We won back-to-back youth cups, and not only did we have a lot of talented players, we had some great coaches who obviously helped us along the way, some big personalities and I would fear for us now if we were in the same youth team with the technology that we have at our hands now.”
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