He was a teenager on the books at Arsenal when Stephen Bradley nearly died in late 2003.
“Within a minute of coming home, the door was getting kicked in. They put a gun to my head. One was saying: ‘Shoot him, shoot him.’ And the other stabbed me; three times. That’s all I remember.”
The surgeon who treated him at a London hospital told Bradley that if the 18-year-old hadn’t deflected the blade, he would have been stabbed through the brain.
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Not long before he was attacked in his own home for the sake of an expensive watch on his wrist, he had been training with Arsene Wenger’s first team. It was
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