🎙️Alex Song: “When I arrived at Arsenal at 17, I signed my first professional contract and I received €15,000, I was so euphoric. You can imagine, a young teenager who goes from €4,000 to €15,000 and so I wanted to do like the great players at Arsenal.
One day I arrived at training and I saw King Thierry Henry arrive with a magnificent car, but damn the car was a jewel, a Lincoln Navigator and so I thought I had to get the same car no matter what. And you know, when you're a footballer, you just have to sign some papers and they will give you the car and then we take deductions from your salary... But I swear to you that after two months, I returned the car because it was an American car that used a lot of petrol, I had nothing left in my fridge, all my money was going to the fuel and I said to them 'give me a Toyota, your thing is too expensive In my opinion'.
When I arrived at training, Henry then asked me: 'But son, where is your car?'. I said to him: 'This car is not at my level." 😂
“They live in marshes, naked, without shoes, sharing their women and rearing all the children in common. They endure hunger, cold, and hardship exceedingly well. They will plunge into swamps and remain there for days, with only their heads above water.”
~ Cassius Dio describing Britons
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