#i am in Such a roy mood rn so many roy thoughts if you couldn't tell

[masochistartt]

trying to figure out what roy's number before 6 would've been

my thought is that he played defensive midfield coming up through the sunderland academy, but like he very much Did Not have the 6 when he was 17 that would've been a near impossibility, he probably earned the 6 his third (maybe second??) year at sunderland, but as he matured and played more with sunderland he became the box-to-box midfielder they call him in the pilot

and by the time he was transferring to a bigger club (my thought is that it was just before or just after the 02-03 season when sunderland got relegated) he had enough pull to tell the clubs he was looking at that he wanted the 6 or he'd sign elsewhere. chelsea gave him the 6 and the rest is football legend