Meet the Board

Mary has been an Arsenal supporter since the late 1960s spending many happy hours in the West Stand. She has been a season ticket holder since 2003.

She became involved with the AST more by accident than design but is keen to further the aims of the Trust and feels that by bringing a feminine influence to proceedings she will encourage wider participation by women supporters.

Married, with an Arsenal supporting son, Nic who is also a season ticket holder, Mary lives in Margate. The family Dalmatian is named Dennis and there are no prizes for guessing who is Mary's all-time favourite Gunner.

Destiny claimed Jeffrey as an Arsenal supporter before he was even born. The club doctor attended his mother at his birth and his father was a life long supporter. Throughout the early years of his life Jeffrey lived just walking distance from Highbury.

The Freeman family have been season ticket holders since 1945 and Jeffrey has been a shareholder since 1964. His daughter, Rachel, continues the tradition.

The first game Jeffrey attended was in the early 1940s. It was a home game played at Tottenham as the Arsenal ground had been bombed. He left the match knowing one enemy would be defeated but another would be a foe for life.

In 1965 Jeffrey spearheaded a group of shareholders in a campaign to remove the then manager, Billy Wright. He found the Arsenal Board were much less accommodating and reasonable then they are today. However, when Wright went and Mee arrived - success followed.

Jeffrey is a divorce lawyer and continues to follow his hobbies of Life, Individuality and Brevity. During the decade he was born, Arsenal were the foremost team in England. He hopes his work through the AST will result in making Arsenal the foremost team in the world.

Richard has been involved with the Arsenal Supporters’ Trust since its formation, actively participating in the administration of the organisation. At present he is the Trust’s Company Secretary.

Coming from an Arsenal supporting family, with a father who first attended games at Highbury in the 1940s, he has supported Arsenal since 1972, held a season ticket since 1983 and travelled to watch the club throughout the UK and Europe.

He is recruitment manager at an oil and gas engineering consultancy. Having an extremely understanding wife, he currently lives in Highbury.

Neil has supported Arsenal since 1986. Neil studied Sport Science and completed his dissertation on Arsenal Football Club and to this day is still waiting for a response from Arsene Wenger after he made a promise that he would read it!

Professionally, Neil works for UK Sport, a leading sport agency working in partnership to lead sport in the UK to world class success. Neil is also the official photographer of the AST.

Tim grew up in Islington where he attended the club's local school, Highbury Grove Comprehensive. He became a season ticket holder at age eleven in 1984 - the first year that season tickets were introduced for juniors - then costing £25 for the entire season (the seat he now sits in costs twice that for one match!).

Tim is a Director at Mandate Communications, Britain's leading corporate and public affairs consultancy where he heads its Sports Advocacy service. He has acted as an advisor to many sports governing bodies including the Football Association (The FA), England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), Rugby Football Union (RFU) and the Premier League. He also established sportsthinktank.com, the country's first think tank dedicated to sports policy issues. 

Tim acts as spokesperson for the Trust, and also manages communication issues including editing the website.

Nigel attended his first match at Highbury in 1974 (Leicester 0-0!) and has been a season ticket holder since 1985 and shareholder since 1991. His Arsenal highlight to date is Anfield 1989 (attended en route to the following day's Scotland vs. England game at Hampden). His favourite all time player is Tony Adams on whom he has modelled his own playing style.

Nigel cares passionately about the Club and sees the role of the AST as an important platform for improved dialogue with the Arsenal Board of Directors. He's keen to further the aims of the AST in whatever way he can.

A married father of four, he has worked in banking since 1988. Son, Henry attended his first match at Highbury against Farnborough in January 2003 age just three and a half years.

Nigel is the Trust's expert on all financial issues at the club and regularly analyses the Club's financial results for AST members and shareholders in general. He is the AST Treasurer.

Steve's standing as a Gooner spans five decades, his first game at The Home of Football being in January 1968. He spent over twenty years standing on the old North Bank before moving to the East Upper in 1988/9. He's been a season ticket holder since 1980/81. A life member of Arsenal Football Supporters Club, he's also a founding life member of both Arsenal Independent Supporters' Association and the Arsenal Supporters' Trust.

Steve's worked in the private, public and voluntary sectors. He is currently Director of Policy & Campaigns for the Football Supporters' Federation as well as working as a freelance journalist. He is an elected director of Supporters Direct, the "trade association" for supporters' trusts. He is a personal Arsenal shareholder. He can now be found in the East Upper (block 112) at the Emirates.

Glyn has been an Arsenal fan since 1970. He is an Arsenal shareholder, a bond holder and sits on the half way line at the Emirates. Educated at Oxford University, he is now a partner specialising in corporate law at one of the UK's largest law firms, Nabarro.

Glyn is a founder member of the Arsenal Supporters Trust and takes primary responsibility for legal and compliance issues. Glyn chairs the AST AGM and other external meetings. Together with wife Carmen (the Trust’s most important member), he manages the AST Membership register.

Phil is a second generation supporter and has followed Arsenal for as long as he can remember. The first football match he ever saw on television was the 1971 FA Cup final. He attended Liam Brady's debut match, and saw Arsenal struggle through the seventies against the likes of Burnley, suffering on through the long wilderness years before George Graham's arrival. By the time Arsenal won the Littlewoods Cup he was attending every home game. By the 1990's he had become a season ticket holder, but family commitments have since reduced his attendance.

He mourned the departure of David Seaman less for the fading of a great keeper than for the fact there will never be another Arsenal player older than Phil himself. Phil has also been a regular contributor to The Gooner fanzine for over a decade.