"I was around 10 years old, in rural Fiji, in the village of Raralevu. Arsenal for me was love at first sight. I remember some of the players like Tony Adams at that time. There was Anders Limpar and his speed, he was very good.
"At that time there was no broadcast TV in Fiji, but we could watch VHS. The nearest town from our village, Nausori, had a video library near the main bus station.
"We would run there every Saturday, sometimes barefoot, and one of the things we would look forward to all week was to get our hands on the recording of the previous week's games and highlights and goals of all the other matches. We would usually go after the Arsenal and Liverpool games. We would not know the result.
"10 cousins and a couple of other boys from the village would watch the VHS together. It was as if we were watching it live."
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Anders Limpar says Freddie Ljungberg's goal is to become Arsenal's head coach
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