Arsenal great Ray Parlour has revealed he once played for the Gunners after downing 'a few pints' pre-match.
Parlour said he had originally been told he was not in the matchday squad for the Premier League clash with Liverpool at Anfield, but had to cut his pre-match drinking activites short following an injury to an Arsenal player during the warm-up.
"Oh I wasn't drunk. It was at Anfield, I was a youngster and in those days there was a lot of the players left out of the squad - six or seven [due to less named substitutes]," Parlour told TalkSport.
"George Graham was the manager and Stewart Houston was the assistant and I was a youngster learning my trade and I said to one of the older pros 'what do we do now?'
"And he said 'let's go and have a few pints before the game', we've got our suits on so off I go - obviously we're not involved in the game.
"We were in the Carlsberg lounge - free beer which was great so we were all in there having a few pints and about 10 minutes before kick-off Stewart Houston opens the door.
"'The boss is going mad, what are you doing?', he said and I told him I was having a few pints and then I'm going to go and watch the game now.
"And he said 'no you get downstairs now', someone was injured in the warm-up so I was now a sub.
"I was like 'oh my God', I got changed and I thought, George Graham won't put me on, I was stinking of booze on the bench.
"Twenty minutes to go he told me to go and warm up, 'you're going on' and I was like 'what? I don't mind doing two minutes'.
"I got on the pitch and I had a really good game to be fair, I think I set the goal up and it was one of those situations where I got in after the game thinking 'how did I get away with that?'"