In every issue of the matchday programme this season, we hear exclusively from a prominent member of the Arsenal family on our Official Voice pages. Recently our general counsel, Svenja Geissmar, who is chair of The Arsenal Foundation, talked us through the Foundation's remarkable journey over the past decade.
I joined Arsenal as general counsel in 2009. I was the first in-house lawyer at the club and my initial task was to look at all the legal work that was needed by the club and to start organising this in a strategic and cost-effective way.