Leicester City and Arsenal have had a number of players that represented both clubs over the years.
The likes of Kevin Campbell and Martin Keown have worn the colours of both teams, but are largely more synonymous with Arsenal.
However, one player that can be called a club great for both sides actually had the strangest of all debuts.
After leaving Leicester for Arsenal, he was immediately loaned back to the Foxes for the remainder of the season.
But, in strange fashion, he made his second Leicester debut against Arsenal, leading to a rare moment where all four corners of the ground sang his name.
Alan Smith joined Arsenal from Leicester and then played against his new club
Alan Smith can be described as a Leicester legend, as well as an Arsenal one too.
Joining from AFC Hornchurch in 1982 and made over 200 appearances for the Foxes, forming a lethal partnership with Gary Lineker before his move to Everton in 1985.
Two years later, Arsenal came in for Smith and signed him for £800,000 but, as part of the agreement, was loaned back to Leicester.
It just so happened that his next game for the Foxes would be against Arsenal. Recalling just how strange it was, he told The Athletic in 2019: “It was a very nervous day and I tried to get out of it.
“I said to [Leicester manager] Gordon Milne at the start of the week, ‘Gaffer, obviously I’m not going to play against Arsenal, am I? They’re my parent club now!’ He said, ‘Alan, we are desperate for the points so you are playing.’
“I will never forget the Leicester fans started chanting my name and I gave them a wave.
“Then the North Bank start to sing my name too, as if to say, ‘he’s our player so we are going to sing his name too’. So, I was waving to both ends of ground and got a bollocking off Gary McAllister, who told me to concentrate on the game. It was that sort of day and I was glad to get it out of the way.”
Alan Smith recalls awkward moment after his final Leicester game
Four games after the Arsenal defeat Leicester’s relegation to the Second Division was confirmed.
While his Leicester teammates were reflecting on a terrible end to the season, Smith had to travel down to London to be a part of Arsenal’s end-of-season team dinner.
“I went back to the dressing room and everyone was distraught in there, but Arsenal had an end-of-season dinner at The Hilton in Park Lane that evening, a black tie event, so I had taken my dickie bow with me,” he explained.
“I jumped in the shower afterwards and was in a rush because I had to get down there. I was putting on my dickie bow and dinner suit as the lads were slumped around the changing rooms. That was how I said my farewells, unfortunately. They were still staring at the ground, devastated, and I was going ‘well, can’t stop to chat boys, I have to get off to Arsenal’s end-of-season dinner.’ I was officially an Arsenal player after all.”