Cliff Holton

Cliff Holton played almost 200 times for Arsenal, scoring 83 goals, winning the First Division with the Gunners, but did you hear the joke he told when the Arsenal manager signed his papers to discharge him from the army?

Arsenal may not have had a proper captain start a league match since some time in 2014, but Per Mertesacker has had his portrait placed on the captain’s wall despite being sidelined until the last six months of his contract.