WHEN I interviewed the late Paddy Galligan a week before Arsenal left Highbury for the last time, it was easy to sense the esteem in which the club’s Irish groundsman, dressing room attendant and all round Mr Fix-it was held across the generations.

HE MAY not have been Arsenal’s most famous Irishman, but there was scarcely a more popular one than Paddy Galligan, Highbury caretaker, who died suddenly last week.