HE'S A RIGHT CHARLIE

Charlie George was in the Arsenal Youth team when I was lucky enough to visit Highbury with my Dad and Uncle Stan who was a keen Gunners' supporter. I was Spurs!

I was at Highbury over the 1968-9 Christmas break with the intention of playing a game in the club's Metropolitan League team as a sort of trial. There was snow at Arsenal's training ground, the game was postponed, so instead we were given a tour of the stadium (Herbert Chapman, heating changing room floors, boot room etc) and met the youth team training behind the stand in an uncover area. Charlie was part of that squad. The next time I saw him he was scoring a screaming at Wembley. He became one of the "mavericks" (only earned one England cap) and never quite fulfilled his potential (did he? did I?).

On May the 8th 1971, Bertie Mee's Arsenal won the League by beating Tottenham at White Hart Lane on the Monday before the Cup Final and then did the Double, beating Bill Shankly's Liverpool at Wembley, with three goals coming in the extra time.

It was 0-0 after 90, 2-1 to the Gunners after a further 30. Steve Heighway scored for Liverpool (92'), Eddie Kelly (101') equalised with a deflection and George scored the winner (111'), lying on his back to celebrate, Gascoigne style.

After Arsenal he made a reasonable number of appearances for Derby and then Southampton but generally messed around in America. His later career continued running a pub in New Milton, Hampshire, in a local garage business and of course the inevitable old boys' hospitality at the Emirates.

Norman Burtenshaw reffed the game and the "Double" went back to North London, Spurs having done it in 1961. Which other club(s) have done the Double?