One former Arsenal player has now lifted the lid on how he came to football relatively late in life in his younger days. Certainly in Britain, it is very common for talented youngsters to be within an academy system at an extremely young age. In some cases, they are little older than toddlers before they are snapped up by a club. This has been the norm for some time. However, there are players who come into the game a little later, and still prove themselves capable of making the grade and progressing all the way to senior level. One former Arsenal star certainly had a later-than-most start to…