So Armand Traore says Tony Adams inspires him with the way he should play, great, well done Traore and a bigger well done to big Tone for the inspiration.
Get him back Arsene, he is just what our defence needs and more importantly he wants to come home, he said so.
We need a bit of English grit in there, and with all the talk from Nasri that every sod speaks French in the dressing room we need a big English character in the changing rooms, remind them how it’s done sort of thing.
Inler has now come out and said he turned us down as have Liverpool with Alonso, so we tried for two players and got snubbed, well that shows us that Arsene obviously doesn’t have the confidence in the squad that he says he does, does it not?
I hope he now gives the players a chance that we know can make it like Ramsey, Bartley and Wilshire, but Coquelin may be a bit too soon.
Bitchslap we’ll all have to wait and see, but hey, who knows, he may be the one, I think he plans on being fit by the end of September so maybe, just maybe we’ll be okay.
Not a lot else to report on at the moment but the Steven Appiah rumour won’t go away so we’ll see if that could be the reason he didn’t sign someone.
Whatever happens, the only new players coming in will be loaners, so as far as I can see that only leaves Appiah or Michael Owen… Kidding on the Owen front by the way!
Only a week to go before we can see how good our new team will be and Blackburn is a great test, so hurry up Saturday week, we’re all waiting.
Have a great Friday Grovers!
See I am being ignored now, so I shall bid yee farewell !!!!!!
Good weekend Grovers !
WOW !
i didnt realize they were not produced in the UK !
george can back me up on that ! used to sell them in Oz ..
blackcurrant fruit pastilles only ! remember those ! ??
ahhh you guys your pulling my leg ! !
Rowntrees is a UK company how can you not of known of them !
you just dont go to your local sweet store !!!
there you go lads !
http://www.rowntrees.co.uk/range/fruitpastilles.aspx
picture 4 !!!
the package has changed a bit thou !
it used to be like the 5 flavor 1′s !
just all black !
now the blackcurrant and strawberry at No. 5 ive never seen !
my son would love that !
and dad possibly too
I’ll leave you with 2 other masters:
Ian Wright:
134 goalscoring games: 93 wins, 27 draws & 14 defeats
Dennis Bergkamp:
103 goalscoring games: 79 wins, 14 draws & 10 defeats
bye folks!
hey bud ..
it was more like sweet appreciation day than a history lesson
ray you forgot ade!
Is anybody out there.I have been thinking very hard about this arab dynasty taking over city,will we see the first 100 million pound player on 500000k a week,you know who will suffer first.It will be Chelsea because Abramovich has been top dog and he cant compete anywhere near with the limitless funds from a group who are not there for the winning,just for taking part, and know nothing about football.It wont benefit the game,because we will see the same players,just at a different club,and if Abramovich pulls the plug Chelsea will go down the plug hole.
A chelsea defender spat at the referee(at the olympics) and got a one year ban from all competitions. Joey Barton assaulted his teammate and got a 12 match ban. What a travesty of justice.
kelsey what do you mean by best buy?
I meant where is the best place to buy one or are they the same price in every country,choy.
best is US.. i can give you a website where they have discount coupons.. so you get a couple of 100 dollars off.. not sure whether those coupons work in Europe though.
here my good man.. please check the site below:
http://www.notebookreview.com/dellCoupon.asp
Right Guys, I am off to the States for a week and a bit, happy blogging and lets see if Appiah is a Gooner when I get back.
Maryland, did not get in contact as my itinerary for the week is pretty full. If it frees up in time for the Blackburn game I will log in and send you an E-mail. Thanks for the offer though, we have Grovers all around the globe now so it is good to know you can get some local intel on what to do and where to watch Arsenal. No doubt I will out on the tiles in Bethesda tomorrow night so might see you there (I will be the very drunk English one, especially if I win 95m Pounds on the Euro Lottery tonight and If I do I am going to buy Wenger a Midfielder in Jan)
Have a good week guys
Thanks choy,I will go and look at one over here first,though they have spanish keyboards.
see ya pat… have fun.. take care
PLEASE bring APPIAH!!!!
I have watched him for both Juve and Ghana and have always thought he was REAL quality…
This was 2 or 3 years ago, but I knew it then.
I am telling you guys you wont be let down….he will HARDLY PUT A FOOT WRONG, much like such favorites as Cesc, Nasri, Clichy, and Sagna…..
Kelsey, I’m not sure the impact of Man City is going to be as great as everyone is making out.
Abramovich coming to the UK didn’t push the cost of players up… it only pushed the cost of players up for Chelsea and it only pushed up chelsea’s wage bill.
Man City won’t sign a £100million player, because they wont need to… who is worth £100million in world football right now who would go to Man City?
Ronaldo? Kaka? None of these players… plus, you can’t guarantee that you will get performance out of a player for more than 2 years… look at what happened to Ronaldinho.
Man City may pay over the odds for players, but I don’t believe you’ll see them paying hugely over the market value. DIC didn’t offer over the odds for Liverpool did they? They are still business men at the end of the day.
We’ll see some movement in the summer, they’ll try and sign all and sundry… but I don’t think the impact will be as great as they are making out.
You can only play 11 players…
Hey Ray Gooner, have a look at RVP’s stat record (all games, cup and League…for Arsenal)against Blackburn.
I have got 2 STs but am desparate for a spare ticket for a cousin from the USA. Who wants to flog me a spare.
Hull match sold out
I will ask around Goonerman
My advice would be to ask again on Monday mid-morning, when the crew are on-line. That way more people will see your request
Cheers Raddy
pedro
Kelsey, I’m not sure the impact of Man City is going to be as great as everyone is making out.
Abramovich coming to the UK didn’t push the cost of players up… it only pushed the cost of players up for Chelsea and it only pushed up chelsea’s wage bill.
It also push us out of the top 2 for the 1st time in many years !
its ludicrous dont you think that people say money doesn’t buy success ?!
well when you use the term BUY ! it usually accompanies money !
no one can deny that Chelsea are NOT a world force in football since the new owner took over ! back to back EPL titles c.l finals ! man .. they have come from zero to hero in a remarkably short space of time ! he might of bought the title ,blah blah blah ..
but at the end of the day they are winners and pushed out of our tree !
If the wenger proto type really worked , dont you think we 1stly would have won something by now .. and 2ndly it would have been adopted by other managers
they dont adopt wengers principles because up to date they have not worked !
and this year in all honesty for us will be the biggest fight ever to hold on to what we have !
frightening ! really , i think some gooners are slow to react , or are hoping for a miracle
,whilst what we do or say really doesn’t make a shred of difference , it would be good to come to some consensus that if we fail again this season the measures to resurrect the club must be taken on !
Drastic measures that will make heads roll !
its killing me seeing what our club has turned into in the past 4 years !
we might as well be leeds !
weve gone from odds on title holders every year , to media scape goats
that gamble every season on our top 4 hopes continuing !
There was one season ticket in the exchange at the top earlier goonerman..
Ethan you always talk as if Wenger’s never won anything.
And When were we odds on title “holders”
Since the Premier league started The mancs have been Favourites most years.
It’s also a myth to say Chelsea have come from nowhere as the were top 4 before Abramovich.
Hi, Finest – what was the name of that website for speeding up your pc ? You mentioned it a few days ago. Cheers in advance.
chary with respect to faster software and indeed finests advice, u really need to install windows and start again,
ccleaner is great bit of software (crap cleaner is it correct name) its teh john smith’s of free applications failing that, just google “ccleaner”
also clcik start, run, type “msconfig”, click ok, u will see system config, go to start up and uncheck the things u dont use or be really brave and uncheck everytyhing,
particularly things like quicktime google adobe in fact any thing that says updates it is all system hoggers
Evenin’ Grovers, whats shakin?
fuck me pierre.. this day won’t end… its boringggggg at work here!!
can anyone tell me how i go about getting tickets for away games, do i have to have a red membership and can i get more than one? cheers
hey choy!!! the day is drawing to a close for me my friend, im here at home on my own (wife has gone out) with tiger woods on the x box and cans of 1664 for company, bliss !!!
where do you live choy?
Cheers Chris, I’ll give ccleaner a go. I did think about re installing windows but that takes ages.
evenin’ chary, who is it in your avatar, and is 1966 your DOB, you whippersnapper you?
Evening all from hot sunny spain.We have gone off topic,my point was that abromovich instead of being the big fish in the pond will become the little sprat compared to the arabs,who know fuck all about football and have unlimited resources and will not come into football for the gain,just for a whim,and that will destroy football as we knew it.Pedro argues they can only have 11 players but a squad of 30 is not unrealistic with huge salaries to boot.Do you think players like Ade would think twice if he could double his wages again.It will be a merry go round with the same players but at a different club.If we had bought one or two experienced players we would be able to compete better this year,but things will soon get out of hand and if Chelsea aren’t top dogs abramovich could just walk away,and what happens to chelsea then.There is no immediate answer for us but the game we once knew will change dramatically.
Drunk as hell and after an argument at work (for which I was blameless) no longer employed. Anyone know of some local wine shops/merchants after a genius let me know
India pierre..
fucking hell jimmy, thats well bad shit fella, where are you based?
cool Choy my friend, Gooners of the world, unite!
What an excellent site this is, fuck all news today and still heading for 600 posts (although the great chocolate debate may have helped)
back to football, in a few years when hopefully the Yanks have pulled the plug on Manure and the Chave are bankrupt, we will be fighting for the title with the thieving gippos and man shitty, plus our youths will have matured and those who havnt been sold will make us a fecking solid team, the futures bright, the futures Arsenal!!!
Andy C if you are desperate to go to a game you can buy them from the club hosting, you just have to sit among the unwashed and keep schtum when we score.
If we needed a winger /striker, then Podolski would have been good.
He is not happy at Bayern..sitting on the bench.
Too bad we are not short in that department. We have Theo, Nasri, Vela and Rosicky coming back.
You’d love it at Totenham!
imagine sitting among those cunts
i have done that a few times now and its, well, crap to be honest. Ive got a red membership but if i want to take the missus im screwed, not shelling out for another membership for maybe two games a season
damn.. that would be shit.. haha.. ja gunner.. all wenger was in the market was presumably a CM or flamini replacement.. and we didn’t get shit..
but it is what it is.. blackburn couldn’t come sooner….zzzzzzzzz
where are you based pierre
im in sheffield (england) and im going to Blackburn on a freeby!!!
Hope we stuff them!
good on you.. yeah hope so.. they’ve conceded seven goals so far.. the highest in the league as of now..
At he moment Cheltenham but am looking for a move back to the capital. Keep those eyes peeled
Hey c1996, there are a few good tools.
Ccleaner is definitely recommended.
Cachemanxp is a great utility, a must have, when installed you manually have to select chacheman’s cache control (19mb cache should be fine)
http://www.download.com/CachemanXP/3000-2086_4-10257919.html
Advanced windows care will restore your registry settings:
http://www.iobit.com/advancedwindowscareper.html?Str=download
Then you should also defrag your HD, this will do a very good job and quickly.
http://www.iobit.com/iobitsmartdefrag.html?Str=download
This will disable any evil programs that may be residing in your PC and prevent them from being activated in the first place.
http://www.comodo.com/boclean/boclean.html
Those 4 are very good progs.
Also if you’re using Windows firewall, it’s crap, Comodo’s is industrial strength, it can even handle full on DDOS attacks, their antivirus is also very good.
am off grovers. nite all.. nite pierre. jimmy…andy c
choy, its because they got paul robinson in goal, he’s absolute shit!
u guys familiar with a site called grooveshark? stick in your songs and grooveshark will find em, save em as a playlist and its all free u get music when you want it whenever you are on the pc, good shit
michael Says:
September 5, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Ethan you always talk as if Wenger’s never won anything
michael your only as good as your last season !
tell that to all the managers that have fell by the way side in this environment !
Im aware of wengers past ! and thats all it appears it will be now!!
its pretty naive of you to think we can get anything from our current bunch !
however you have it your way ! id rather be a winner than a historian !
just a little post to say i believve in arsenal(even more than arsene) and we will do well this season.
Whats happened to the nightshift?
The way that Ade played against Newcastle, scurrying about like a menancing taranchula, I think he enjoyed himself. Maybe that is more his natural game, running @ the defenders; taking 2 or more defenders with him.
With the unfortunate circumstances with respect to RVP & Eduardo last campaign, maybe Mr Wenger asked him to take on the striker role more, which doesn’t really allow him to totally express himself. As it turned out we bloody nearly won the league.
I know I might cop some flack over this assessment with Ade, but he does get around doesn’t he, the big fella.
im gonna be kind on you george and not comment !
however i will say this 3 EPL games no goals ade !
the only goal (the twente goal) theo set him up on a plate and spoon fed him dinner
like a cripple in a wheel chair ! theo also did this in the AC away game – and the liverpool C.L game !
GOD BLESS THEO ! the most underrated player in the arsenal line up who creates something from nothing ! and get plenty of shit for it ! yet ade can get 90k a week and scores fuck all , flirts with other clubs ,head butt team mates , has 11 game goal droughts , 64 offsides in a season .. and every cunt still loves him !
Arsene play jack ! he’s itching to be a 1st 11 regular !
and we can do with a class injection !
Ethan
I know & agree with you on Ade not scoring yet this campaign. But what i mean is he can take defenders with him & run @ them as well, which, in a climate of AW not making signings is good/a positive for the team. I, like you, agree as an out and out scorer he is frustrating but maybe that is not his game. Only time will tell.
Anyway, how are you anyway me old aussie cricketing mate
Arsenal are considering offering Steven Appiah a contract after the player admitted he would relish a move to the Premier League. The Ghana international is now a free agent after being released by Turkish side Fenerbahce and can still sign for any outside the transfer window.
Arsene Wenger is keen to add to his midfield options after missing out on Gareth Barry and Xabi Alonso during August and Appiah looks a suitable candidate. The 27-year old has also been linked with a move to West Ham United in recent days but as yet nothing has materialised and Appiah has welcomed the interest from the Gunners.
“There are contracts, there are talks – I can’t say anything yet,” said Appiah. “I am not going to put people off, my agents are talking so I have nothing else to say.” I personally think Appiah is a tremendous midfield player who would benifit a lot of sides in England, including Arsenal. He wouldn’t cost the club a penny (apart from his wages) and I feel he could prove to be an excellent signing.
If Appiah is fit again, he’d be ideal.
To some extent, I agree with Ethan re Theo. I have looked at a few re-runs of our games – he does give possesion away quite a lot but this more often down to others – hospital passes and poor movement.
Re Ade, we need one of the statto-types to work out how many goals he has scored against weak opposition – and how many goals have actually contributed to points.
If there is any question over Appiah’s fitness, we should leave him to the East End- Icelandic alliance.
Hello fellow grovers!!
If anyone would tell me what Senderos said in his final interview it would be much appreciated!!
Onya Cesc
http://www.goal.com/en/Articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=851546
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=569648&sec=england&cc=3436
Morning all,well Cesc has already told the sheiks were to put their money,good on him.
Catfors,IMO because of the dissapointment and in my case surprise,of not signing one experienced defensive player,the minute we are linked with a possible free signing crock,everyone goes overboard about Appiah.He is another injuy prone player and there is a big IF as to return of fitness to the player he was 4 years ago.This is what gets me most about Wenger,he sees the players on a daily basis and for the last 2 years RVP and Rosicky have had one injury or another and never recover completly before they are injured again.To some extent Diaby is the same,Silvestre though experienced the same and even Wenger admits Bischoff is a gamble.One can’t rely on these players and he has had at least 3 transfer windows to rectift the position.The squad is so young and although we have already debated the captaincy,there are no other options at the moment.Wenger may not be on the pitch but his great belief in moulding youngsters to his ideal way of playing football doesn’t always come off,i.e.Fulham.We are to dependant on Cesc,and a blind man can see that.
trindle
i think he scored 1 goal against man U the year before last , he seemed to play well Vs spuds and the newcastle last season .. Yes i know what you mean ..
when you consider of the 24 scored last season in the epl 3 or 4 were penalties 9- 10 goals v’s relegation bate teams .. it leaves about 10 goals in about 30 games !
1 in 3 games when your the teams sole focus is not good enough and has always been my point!
you know the funny thing is i dont know why wenger didnt sell him ! ?
it really makes me question wengers eye for a class player !
he sold anelka quick enough for cash !
that bit of business could have gave us a good striker and a good DM for the money !
and everyone was happy !!!!
but now everyone is blaming the fact we aint backing him !
Fuck ! what a joke !
it seems the excuses can never end !
He must score next game ?? even defoe has got 1 for pompy !
Wenger will not experiment with the strikers role either .
i fear it could let us down in a big way if he cannot find the right pairing !
Ethan – other than the chances-goals ratio, the thing that gets me is the number of offsides. How many times are Theo, RVP or even the great Dane in comparison … hardly any. He is responsible for almost all of our offsides.
On the positive side, seeing Carlos Vela’ introduction was more than welcome – like Nasri, he looked totally at home. Reyes with knobs on.
We’ll back him if and when he delivers – he’s got to prove himself to us not the other way round … I don’t know of any Gooners who threatened to support another club unless the ticket prices came down!
Hi Ethan,
Had AC really offered £30m for Ade, Wenger would have bitten their hand off. Trouble is that others can see Ade’s statistics, and that is why no-one signed him when he obviously wanted to go.
That said, I do like Ade. He never stops trying, is skilful on the ball, and good in the air. But would I swap him for Villa, Torres or Santa Cruz. You bet I would.
NEW BIRTHDAY POST! WOOOOO HOOOOOO!
Two yars time I see our front line as Eduardo and Vela, with RvP playing a deeper Bergkampy role.
If we can keep Nic happy with the occasional appearance (& I very much doubt that), we can sell Ade,.
Ade is a cunt
he shouldnt play up front
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