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Yes, that’s right, one today! Crack open a Peroni on us, it’s our BIRTHDAY!
It was a year ago today that Le Grove made its way to your PC’s, the day our illustrious manager Arsene Wenger committed himself to a new contract.
Boy did this year go fast, so today’s post is dedicated to you (Post 378), a big thank you for all the support (1.5 million hits) and a big thank you for all the great comments (27,000 of the buggers), we have made a lot of new friends this year, coined some new phrases and have debated everything from religion to spending huge amounts of money in the transfer market!
This site is now one of the biggest hit Arsenal websites on the internet and certainly the biggest for pure Arsenal comments by a country mile. If you want to talk Arsenal, this is the place to do it!
Pedro and I started it because we were frustrated that no one dared to criticise anything Arsenal or Arsene but it turned into something completely unique, the only blog-chatroom out there, so a big well done for creating something so special.
Our anniversary comes on a no news day so it’s worked out well, we can spend today patting all our fellow Grovers on the back.
This could also be the year that Arsene’s experiment comes to fruition by winning everything on offer, our ‘no risk’ signing Bitchslap says he is two weeks away from making his training debut, so add another injury to that and in theory he could be playing before ‘double break Eduardo’ makes his comeback, and if he is any good he could make up for not signing Alonso, YaYa, Cana, Inler, Barry or Veloso.
There is also the news that someone is selling a season ticket in Le Exchange, so if you are interested, drop me and and e-mail.
Okay, okay we’re not holding our breath, but there’s no more footballing news so at least it’s something to debate.
Once again you lot, thanks for a great first year, we wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for you, let’s make the number one spot this season, for us and for the Arsenal!
Many Thanks,
Geoff and Pedro.
pedro
It feels like a Wenger signing, but if it was… surely he wouldn’t be creating so much publicity for himself? Wenger likes to operate under the radar doesn’t he?
I think if your a free transfer target your going to make some noise aren’t you !
you want some quality clubs chasing you ! so you make all the noise possible …
He does seem to not give everything away ! he has quoted he will let his agents do the work ! so he sounds professional enough ! But you cannot blame him for the public talk
he is a reasonable player , Im hopeful !
& I do believe wenger is interested .. he was interested a season or 2 ago in him .
he could be just what we need (in midfielding terms).. I like the fact he backs himself from range too he takes a lot of shots from around the 16 yard box ! !
he might teach ade a thing or 2 !
kelsey
i agree cesc is a great player
but something tells me we just wont get the best years out of him !
im sure he will leave prior to it !
the game is 7 pm your time pedro isnt it ?
Ethan, best not to get any hopes up… …I was expecting Kompany with either Alonso or Barry at what did we get Silvestre and Bischoff???
Go figure!
We’ve been linked with Stephane M’Bia who is a 22 year old DM for possible transfer in January. If true, I can’t see us going for Appiah now.
Happy Birthday
Great site, always enjoy popping in to see how everyone is feeling.
Keep it up Geoff and Pedro xx
Rasputin, now that seems far more likely
hehe it worked… …can not believe it took me that long to figure it out
nice one grovers, its been a good year. Looking forward to the team back together after the break aswell
Rasputin Says:
September 6, 2008 at 3:32 pm
We’ve been linked with Stephane M’Bia who is a 22 year old DM for possible transfer in January. If true, I can’t see us going for Appiah now.
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just hope janurary isnt too late. is he cup tied?
Well done guys this is a great site. HAPPY BIRTHDAY::::
I’m thinking about going to Isanbul for the Fenabache game. Does anyone know anything about the ground? Is it far from the centre? Is it very heavy? What’s it like getting out? I know what the beer is like because it’s sold in all the Turkish bars and restaurants near to the ground “Effes” a good beer; worth a try if you don’t know it.
It’s pretty quiet today on the grove.
London
Fenabache’s ground is on the Asian side and is in a heavily residential area, whatever you do, make sure you have no colours and travel in a group they are notoriously crazy!
Last year I almost got beat for cheering a Marseille goal during the Besiktas Marseille game, should be a great experience though and Istanbul is my favorite city in Europe (tied with Paris).
I am thinking of going but if I do it would be in a bus with other gooners, hopefully getting on and off behind police.
Make sure you do not drive from the other side as it can take hours to get accross instead take the ferry’s accross from Kadakoy to Karrakoy or the other way around, it costs about a quid
Does anyone know anything about Kiev as I am going there for the 1st time?
Don’t know anything about Istanbul except what I saw on thet Danny Dyer programme.
How are you getting to Kiev Gunner8? Is it an organised trip?
Well at least Big Brother is over and normal service can be resumed.
Not an easy place to get to Kiev,Hounddog would know he goes to all these remote places.I know from england direct flights are expensive and few and far between.i heard some are going to fly to Poland and then take a direct train to Kiev.
Goonermichael,got a good dry sense of humour mate
want to talk about chocolate again (no) sweets(no) england tonight(no) TV (no) exchange rate (no) womwn !!!!
if appiah failed a medical as reported . how come he played and apparently played well for Ghana last night ?? apparently representative from afc were watching .
interesting !
exactly,he came on after twenty minutes when essien got crocked and the reports i read said he played really well and looked fully fit.
Evening Grovers – well all is so quiet, and I thought to myself why?
Ah, I thought England are on TV playing footie later, good night to go out for a meal!!
what’s new rico and your opinion on Appiah is ?
Were not allowed to discuss him, it makes me sad..
Yo, kelsey – watching Andy Murray at the moment, dinner in the oven, all else is no different, got over my worries that I may have exposed my PC to the world yesterday!!
Appiah – he is free, experienced, big and strong, plays in the CM position – I say, get him for 20 games a season – thats only because I dont think Diaby, Denilson are there yet, Appiah and Song could be our DM and Cesc/Denilson the attacking role.. Diaby needs to be fit, right now IMHO he is unreliable due to always being injured…
Hows you?
david ???
Happy Birthday Le Grove – You’re a curious child; still not sure what to make of you. I regularly look but seldom speak. I’m not fond of blogs and bloggers as a rule. You seem different but I don’t yet know if I mean that in a good way or not.
does anyone know how i can watch the england game…any internet links? any match highlights later?
shooy – you can look, but you will never find – a blog that allows YOU to speak, thats why we all in this one- i only used to read, but now i am hooked
I hope you enjoy
kingsley, its on Setanta, dont know of any links,
Rico I agree about Denilson and Diaby is a bit of an enigma for me can’t quite work out if he will really step up and as you say always injured.Apparently Appiah wants 40K a week,if he really is fit why not,for a short term solution.
i wish we had some of your rain here,it is still unbearable.
Kingsley.. It’s normally on here I think..
http://www.justin.tv/mstvone
I have never used it my computer is steam driven..
It’s on radio 5 live if that helps *)
Theo is starting on the wing..
cheers guys. i’ve sky sports but not setanta! gutted.
kingsley setanta are doing a special deal 12 months for the price 10 months about 140 quid and you get Arsenal TV thrown in,not bad when you pay nearly 40 quid a month for sky sports
It’s on the above link 6.38 (advert top left)
Or here
http://www.humsurfer.com/andorra-vs-england-watch-live-online-world-cup-2010-football-streaming-sopcast-p2p-setanta-sports-match-of-the-day-6th-sept-2008
England are so shit lmao its still 0-0
Walcott has been the best player aswell really.
Van persie is fit and starting for the dutch.
Just heard that Andorra are the third worst side in world ranking, says it all.Pity the tennis got rained off Murray is playing unbelievably well.
yep RVP is on the pitch, just watching it live here! 1-0 up for the dutch so far after 14 mins
Did Downing win some sort of Magazine competition to get a starting place?
Evening all, I’m back, but now I’m going to a wedding, but it’s not mine so it’s okay! Just kidding!
Thanks for all those fine Grovers that came on today, Des Moines, my mate worked for Ruan for a number of years so I know you well!
Talk later.
0 – 1 Joe Cole
harry kewell and RVP are having a nice old ding dong battle, doesnt look like they like each other much, a fair bit of niggle!
joe cole double 0-2
Bonne Anniversaire to Le-Grove, Geoff and Bud.
I always thouyght I must be a grover as I had certain opinions on the Arse that I never saw elsewhere on the web.
I hated calling our new home “The E***ates” – it was always Ashburton Grove, or The Grove to me because I felt no good would come of the deal with that airline, with it’s Chav connections and other even more dubious links.
After Vieira left and he was not replaced adequately and I would think “hang on, how can we be moving forward if we don’t replace him with someone of at least equal – if not greater – quality ?” Everywhere on the web though I was told Wenger could do no wrong so I assumed it was just me who had the problem.
What Le grove does is to provide an outlet for the doubts we have without being shouted down as not “real” Arsenal fans.
Yes, Wenger has done lots for the club but when we see our club being run down, with the complicity of the mendacious board of directors, we have a right to say so.
Gallas, sagna, nasri all playing for france. 1-nil down against austria
dutch keeper red carded for a foul on aussie striker
harry kewell took the penalty 1-1 at half time
own goal by gallas 2-0
says mexes OG
i still maintain we should have signed podolski
just saw the goal, yep came off galas, however tough call on the OG, the guy struck it to score and deflected in….
kuyt coming on at half time for the dutch, i hope we kick the shite out of him!
mwaaaaaahahahahahah!
tevez sent off
Another load of shite by england,bring back mcclaren
rvp was subbed at half time, thank god
evo did he look fit or was carrying an injury or just subbed
just subbed mate due to them being down to 10 men
looked fit enough as well, so he just needs to get thru the qualifying game midweek and all is good
govou scores for the french, set up by nasri
the french are screwed. penalty austria 3-1. 15 mins to go
goal OZ 2-1 up with 10 mins to go
another bloke i would have purchased is Ibrahim Afellay….looks the goods….
victory for the socceroos against the dutch 2-1
Andorra has a population less than Stevenage.
How embarassing was that by England?
Didn’t watch the england game. Good decision I think
Nothing impressive with the English National team as usual. The Germans play the minnows from Lichtenstein and put 6 past them!!!
Can anyone explain to me how I can change the logo on the right side of my post as I am tired of seeing a yellow box of dots!!!
hounddog – head over to wordpress.com and sign up by creating a logon/profile. in your profile you can upload an avatar which is that small picture (your yellow box of dots).
cheers mate
Hi Evo, cheers and thank you.
Congratulations on the one year anniversary of Le-groove. I am proud to be associated with Le-Grove. Up Arsenal, Up Le-Grove, Up Nigeria!!!
happy birthday le-groove and thank you geoff & pedro for putting up this no 1 arsenal blog up….go le-groove! go gunners!!
on the 1st year anniversary i had two peroni’s… it really is a good beer..
with that.. night all..
thank you pedro and geoff.. and all the wonderful people blogging on here!!!
testing this avartar thing, se if i’ve got it right
success
last!
gold for you
michael cant believe you said you wouldnt follow England last night !
Theo was in the team from start too finish ! and he looked good !
but as ever ,no striker could finish off his chances he made! He created and charged forward every time down the right flank ! so much so when beckham was going to be sub’d on they got lumpard out instead of theo !! and made becks a CM ! HAHAHAHA !
CONGRATS fellas, you guys have created IMO one superb Arsenal Blog Environment
perhaps the best on the web
living in Canada does not always allow one to partake in a knowledgeable discussion on the subject of football or more so our beloved club .
so this blog kinda feels like i get a personal touch to the daily goings ons of the club with thoughtful insight and true passion which makes the distance seem a lot shorter from my doorstep to Ashburton
thanks a million i as well as many am absolutely grateful for this site
thats a shout out to all the grovers as well
Evo
Did we beat Holland. Bring on England
But they refuse to play us since our last win 3-1. We used to get the piss taken out of when we flexed our muscles againt Samoa, & Vanuatu, but ANDORA. Where the $%*! is ANDORA?????
OK, would England play us if we let them be Great Britain? United Kingdom maybe???
We’re on our way!!! We’re on our way!! We’re off to Joburg, We’re on our way …….
Its official, we did win.
http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/socceroos/dutch-delight-for-socceroos-133121/
yeah mate i got up at 4.30am to watch it. not sure why cause it was only a friendly, but i fancied getting some football in before back to work tomorrow.
glad the roo boys were whipped in the afl last night
Yes i can live with the roos losing too. As a friendly, i couldn’t even find on SBS when the game was on. Bloody hopeless, so it took your comments on here for me to find out. Cheers mate
As for England, I know most on here would agree with my piss taking. Saw the highlights & the away fans booing @ half time. And Beckham still getting a game I see. Shaking his head on the bench. He was probably pissed off coz he wanted to get on to show off his newest tattoo or something.
Joe Cole more often than not comes on & turns it around, but the powers that be start in on the bench.
“We all agree, Arsenal are better than England”
yes i think we agree on that one. cant understand why they cant get their act into gear? personally i think its because of lampard and barry, the dont cut open to opposition defence with any passes. thats left up to rooney
Evening chaps!
‘PHW issues a come and buy me plea!’
What a way to come out and say it?
Looks like we’ll be joining the Premiership gravy train soone than we thought… I am pretty sure the lock down agreement isn’t legally binding?
Very naughty…