GARY TEDDER recalls when his beloved Arsenal were stunned by Third Division Swindon Town in the League Cup Final in 1969 

Roger Smart puts Swindon ahead

WE’VE all had days when we wished we’d stayed under the duvet. For me, the winter of 1968/69 represented four months’ worth of such days.
A dose of dysentery, somehow contracted while living in clean, comfortable Islington – which resulted in near quarantine, and the removal and destruction of my library and school books – was followed within a few weeks by an unfortunate tumble at home and a broken...