
Influential: Charlie Nicholas and John Lukic pictured with late Arsenal manager Terry Neill in July 1983
(Picture: Hulton Archive)For a generation of Arsenal fans, the 1979 FA Cup Final stands as the defining match in their formative football experience, perhaps for some even their childhood outright.
As such, the outpouring of grief at the passing of the club’s manager that day, Terry Neill, at the age of 80, yesterday, came as little surprise.