New books spills training ground insights on Arsenal legends

Nigel Winterburn’s simplistic approach to cone-running. Pat Rice gets mad. David Seaman is fussy.

Ben Smith played for Reading, Yeovil, Southend, Hereford, Shrewsbury and Weymouth. His new book Journeyman: One Man''''s Odyssey Through the Lower Leagues of English Football is a an entertaining trek through the bleaker side of the glory game.

But Smith also played, briefly, for Arsenal. He first played for the club''''''''s U12s in the early 1990s and was part of Pat Rice''''s youth team at the start of the 1995/96 season, when Bruce Rioch took over as manager at Highbury and Dennis Bergkamp and David Platt joined the club.