36 Facts About Peter Storey

Peter Edwin Storey was born on 7 September 1945 and is an English former footballer.

Peter Storey turned professional at his boyhood club Arsenal in 1962, and became a first team regular after making his debut in 1965.

Peter Storey was a losing finalist in the 1968 and 1969 League Cup and the 1972 FA Cup Final.

Peter Storey won 19 caps for England between 1971 and 1973.

Peter Storey was transferred to Fulham in 1977 before announcing his retirement eight months later.

Peter Storey soon attracted the attention of Arsenal with his performances at schoolboy level, and impressed across the back four enough to represent England Schoolboys.

Peter Storey signed as an apprentice at Arsenal after leaving school in 1961.

Peter Storey retained his first team place and went on to play all of the remaining 29 games, though the season would prove to be a poor one for the "Gunners" as manager Billy Wright was sacked after dropping top-scorer Joe Baker and disillusioning the dressing room.

Peter Storey was warned by new manager Bertie Mee not to get sent off after Storey got involved in a brawl during an FA Cup win over Gillingham.

Peter Storey started 34 league games, missing eight matches due to injury and illness.

Mee retired in the summer of 1976, and his successor was Terry Neill, who was the Arsenal captain when Peter Storey made his debut.

Peter Storey returned to the first team in spells, but the purchase of Alan Hudson in December 1976 spelt the end for Storey at Highbury.

Peter Storey refused to train with the reserves and was again suspended by the club before accepting a free transfer to Fulham in March 1977.

When Peter Storey arrived at Craven Cottage, Fulham were one place above the Second Division relegation zone and under the management of Bobby Campbell; training was relaxed and superstar signings George Best, Bobby Moore and Rodney Marsh were past their best.

Peter Storey almost did not play the game as Arsenal manager Bertie Mee ordered both Storey and teammate Bob McNab to pull out of the fixture to play a league game against Burnley the day before, but was allowed to play for England after coach Don Howe persuaded Mee to reconsider his decision.

Peter Storey picked up an assist in the match after providing the cross for Francis Lee's late header.

Peter Storey began his career as a right-back, and soon picked up a reputation as a powerful tackler.

Peter Storey gained a reputation as Arsenal's "hard man" in a violent era of British football where clubs would typically employ at least one tough player willing to use dirty play to hurt the opposition and to protect their own generally more skilled players.

Teammate Bob McNab, quoted in Seventy-One Guns wrote that "Peter Storey was a nightmare for players when he marked them man for man".

Peter Storey was an efficient taker of penalty kicks, and the only penalties he missed had little bearing on the final result of the match.

Peter Storey left him for good in February 1971 after tiring of his self-described "boozy, carefree ways".

Peter Storey met his second wife, Cathy McDonald, at London's Playboy Club in May 1972.

Peter Storey married third wife Gill shortly before the arrival of his son, Peter, born in November 1981.

Peter Storey's second son, Anthony, was born in December 1982.

Peter Storey's third son, Jamie, was born in September 1987.

Peter Storey later divorced Gill and married a Frenchwoman, Daniele Scorceletti.

Peter Storey's life began to fall apart in 1975 after he took a three-year tenancy agreement out on the Jolly Farmers pub on north London's Southgate Road.

Peter Storey became more dependent on alcohol as his career at Arsenal came to an end.

Peter Storey invested in a minicab firm in Newington Green, that failed.

Peter Storey turned to crime when helping local gangsters, the Barry brothers, to counterfeit money by providing finance and storage of the cast die.

Peter Storey was arrested, and whilst on bail set up a brothel called the Calypso Massage Parlour with three women to try and raise enough money to flee to Spain to avoid his trial for conspiracy to produce counterfeit money.

Peter Storey was briefly jailed for contempt of court after failing to appear at his bankruptcy hearings.

In September 1980 the trial for conspiracy to produce counterfeit money came to a conclusion and Peter Storey was sentenced to three years imprisonment.

Peter Storey served his time at Wandsworth and Spring Hill.

Peter Storey was handed a 12-month suspended sentence in April 1982 for stealing two cars he had on hire purchase whilst running his minicab firm.

Peter Storey spent 1995 in Istanbul working as a chauffeur for Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and his entourage.