‘I wanted my parents to know that football took one of their sons, but it also gave another son the most beaut
Exclusive | Emmanuel Petit on the tragedies that inspired him to achieve ultimate glory
Emmanuel Petit celebrates after scoring a last-minute winning goal against West Ham United for Arsenal in 2000“I looked at myself and I was so tired. So depressed. Nothing in my eyes, no life, no happiness, there was nothing. I remember this moment very clearly. So I said, ‘This is it’. Now you have to get back on the pitch.”The brutally honest words offered up by former Arsenal and France World Cup-winning midfielder Emmanuel Petit leave little to the imagination and when you hear the story behind how he got to this point of no return, it sheds a new light on an athlete who made a decision to take on a personal burden that came close to breaking him.
