Ray Parlour’s 12 best anecdotes: Kolo Toure, Spurs, playing drunk & more

Ray Parlour won nine major honours and went a full Premier League season unbeaten as a player for Arsenal – and most importantly he has plenty of incredible stories about it all.

The midfielder, nicknamed the “Romford Pele”, is a regular on talkSPORT and often has us in fits of laughter listening to some of the crazy things that went on during the 90s and 2000s.

We’ve picked out some of our favourite stories…

In 2002, Arsenal completed the Double as they won the Premier League and FA Cup.

Parlour scored in the cup final and has since recalled the few days that followed – including an away game against title rivals Manchester United.

Ray Parlour was a superb midfielder, underrated throughout and beyond his playing days. Fortunately for us all, if there’s one thing besides football he‘s equally adept at it’s storytelling. Enjoy this one, won’t you.

– @SoccerAMpic.twitter.com/YGhczI9SvZ

— These Football Times (@thesefootytimes) May 9, 2020

The centre-back certainly had an eventful trial.

Martin Keown knows how to hold a grudge.

A long flight to South Africa, a sleeping manager and a training session a few hours after landing. What could go wrong?

When Parlour spotted two of his Spurs-supporting mates at White Hart Lane, he thought he’d have some fun…

Another classic @RealRomfordPele north London derby story!

You can hear Tottenham v Arsenal live on talkSPORT tomorrow from 12:30pm pic.twitter.com/Pbu9UjcJkw

— talkSPORT (@talkSPORT) February 9, 2018

We bet Arsene Wenger never listened to Parlour or Dennis Bergkamp ever again after this.

“@MartinKeown5 never liked a CB coming in on trial.”

“We were trying to wind Martin up saying Igor was unbelievable.”

“Wenger was listening, didn’t realise what we were doing & bought