Van Persie scores against 17 Premier League opponents in one season to match record set by Arsenal legend Ian Wright". In 2010 Wright joined Absolute Radio, hosting Rock 'N' Roll Football, post match analysis and chat on Saturdays from 5 till 7. He also appears every Tuesday on The Debate on Sky Sports' Premier League channel, once again teaming up with Kelly Cates.

Not a standard footballer’s autobiography, Ian Wright’s memoir is a thoughtful and gripping insight into a Highbury Hero and one of the greatest sports stars of recent years.The books featured on this site are aimed primarily at readers aged 13 or above and therefore you must be 13 years or over to sign up to our newsletter. However, once you’ve got past the full chapters on teenage years, and music tastes, it’s back into Ian’s career and the post-playing years. He spends a full chapter talking about the music and clubs he liked to go to when he was growing up and yet scoring twice in an FA Cup Final barely merits two sentences? Since October 2020, Wright has co-hosted his own podcast, Wrighty's House, on The Ringer FC, with a rotating panel of guests including Musa Okwonga, Ryan Hunn, Jeanette Kwakye, Flo Lloyd-Hughes, Carl Anka and Mayowa Quadri.

Wright was overlooked for the 1990 World Cup but was handed his England debut by manager Graham Taylor in February 1991.He scored on his debut against Leicester City in a League Cup tie, produced a hat-trick on his league debut against Southampton, [4] and in the final match of the season, scored another hat-trick against the Saints to take his total to 31 goals in all competitions. He was very good but best of all you could see he loved it and appreciated his good fortune of playing football for a living. He scored his final goal for the club on 6 January 1998 in a League Cup quarter-final victory against West Ham United at the Boleyn Ground. In his playing career, Wright was sponsored by the sportswear company Nike, and appeared in Nike commercials.