Despite the seemingly damning assessment of life at Arsenal in his autobiography My Defence, Cole disarmingly admitted that he misses elements of what he left behind in north London.

• 尽管在他的自传《我的防守》中看起来对在阿森纳的生活大加批判，但是科尔平静地承认自己在离开北伦敦后很想念以前的日子。