Burton & Primorac

Nope, they are not the names of a couple of new age lawyers. Terry Burton and Boro Primorac are currently on the Arsenal coaching staff.

Most people know that Burton had a prior spell with the club as coach, a few may well recall his times as a youth player. But Primorac? Who can recall the time he played at Highbury?

Back in the late 1970s Primorac counted Hajduk Split among his clubs in what was then known as Yugoslavia. In 1978/79 they were drawn against the Arsenal in the 2nd round of the UEFA Cup and Primorac appears on the team sheet of that programme wearing the number 6 shirt but he doesn't appear, at least he is not named, in the team picture.

Interestingly the the pen picture of him in the programme suggests he signed for Hajduk 18 months earlier. That would have coincided with the John Radford testimonial with the team provided the opposition. However the programme from that night has no mention of him.

Terry Burton of course rejoined Arsenal in the pre season after a good wander round since leaving. He never made the grade at Highbury but certainly gets plenty of mentions in programmes from those times.



In later years Burton found himself on the coaching staff of Wimbledon where he had his kit sponsored by a certain Jan Wells! But why was his picture in black n white?!