Welcome to a new feature on the blog: Whatever happened to…?, where we track the careers of Arsenal Academy products and see where they are now. Today’s featured player is Graham Stack.
After coming through the ranks at the Arsenal Academy, ‘keeper Graham was loaned out to feeder club Beveren in 2001. His time at the Belgium side was marred by a bizarre incident in which he struck a hooligan in the face after he had attacked him.
His big break at Arsenal came in the unbeaten season in 2003-2004. Whilst he did not play a league game during that campaign, he was still given the honour of lifting the Premiership trophy on the final day of the season. He made his debut against Rotherham in the 3rd Round of the Carling Cup and saved a penalty in the shootout, before converting the winning spot-kick himself. He went on to play every game in the competition, until the Gunners were defeated in the semi-finals by Middlesbrough.
Arsenal sent him on loan to Millwall the following season, playing 26 games. In 2005/2006, he joined Reading on loan and played against Arsenal as the Royals lost in the Carling Cup at Highbury. He went on to sign a permanent deal with the Berkshire club in early 2006.
Last season was spent on loan at Leeds, where he made 12 appearances, and he has recently completed a season at Wolves, where he only managed to play 2 games. It remains to be seen whether Stack will stay at relegated Reading and compete with the likes of Marcus Hanehmann and Adam Federici for the no.1 jersey, or seek a fresh challenge elsewhere.



This is a good idea. Keep all that infor. coming…
nice idea man. Keep it up.
No, Wiltord scored the winning penalty against Rotherham
that’s true, stack actually saved the decisive penalty