When I was a young lad, I travelled over to Marbella with a few chums. We hung out most of the week in a chav hole bar called Linekers. For those of you not familiar with the bar, it used to be one of the focal points in Puerto Banus. They had sport going on all day, easy women and rich footballers. When we were there we were lucky enough to share our stretch of bar with Lee Hendry and a young Gareth Barry. I was pretty hammered and ended up next to him in the unrinals (Sounds like a George Michael moment, doesn’t it?) … I embarrassingly asked him if he’d ever play for Arsenal to which he replied,
‘I wish… but I don’t think I’m good enough.’
A humble response. Needless to say I didn’t ask that little ferret Lee Hendry if he’d play for Arsenal…
So now the rumour has it that Barry wants to come and play for the Arse. Well, that would make sense to me for one reason and one reason only… his age.
If we can get him at a knock down price, he’ll have two years in him and he could help nuture some of the less experienced players through to maturity. Jet could do with learning from a classy player like Barry… as could Coquelin. Remember, Villa aren’t in a such a strong postion this year… they wont be getting £20million for him this summer… could be a very Wengerish move…
This could be one of my last Saturday posts for a while… not becuase I have a bad case of RSI… not because Geoff and I have been given our own Talk Sport slot… no… because Le Grove are giving you the chance to write a post. Oh yes… during the preseason we are going to reintroduce the failed guest post of a few years ago. I’d like to give the readers and commenters the chance to try their hand at putting their thoughts out to the masses. All you need to do is write me and e-mail, outline what you want to write about and if we like the cut of your jib… we’ll book you in for a slot.
You’ll be reading beleifs from both sides of the fence, hopefully you’ll enjoy it!
We’ll be announcing the winner of the Le Grove fantasy league tomorrow as well!
In other news, Eboue might be off… shame.
Have a great Saturday Grovers and remember, sun tan lotion is for girls.
Poll Results
How confident are you in Arsene’s ability to make us contenders again?
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Confident: 39%
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Confident: 26%
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Unsure 20%
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Lacking Confidence: 10%
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Extremely unconfident: 5%
Votes: 2000
Haha Stu. I guarantee if that was us that won the cup, Wenger would probably sit the players down and give them a glass of wine each and watch a French League match.
Cork is where my dear mama is from… But Ive already said too much, gawd love her
Im a bit north of cork Zorr0. And i dont play for anyone atm so couldnt help you if i wanted. Sorry………….
Lol Reggie, you prob remeber Dabsy, the one armed hoolie! Maybe J and G are before my tinme, or I got out just in time! Seen some bad shit in my days, hard to fathom how stupid they could be, yet survive so long without getting banned!
No Loner it wasnt dan tanner the guy who played the lead role was robert sumfing its winding me up no end!
Stu; I saw it on a HBO special fella.
Right Lovedup…right.
Robert Ulrich, from Soap!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Mike Ashley put newcastle up for 100m.
He’d be lucky to get 50m for that shite!
reg;
Not Robert Culp?
Zorro you mean babsy the one armed chelsea chav another name from around that time was vidos the striper!
Stu, too north of Cork to come for a straightener or a fe beers?
Just kidding about the straightener!
May huh….this or next?
I’ll see what i can do but it remains unlikely for now.
Reggie, that sounds about right; Babsy!
I remember George, with no legs, who had arns the size of trees and used too come round our school for a scrap!
Same school half of Madness were at and Baggy Trousers was written about ie!
next doors school, every year it was the rule etc etc blah blah blah chelsea cunt Suggs!
no it was not either of them, it was always on late around about midnight, one of the last programs before the shutdown!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/columnists/michaelcalvin/2009/05/31/arsenal-need-a-pep-up-115875-21401993/
Now that would be something amazing!
Stu, well if it was this May we would be talking about today!
Next year buddy! Gives you a while to sort it!
Zorro; I know I am almost pshychic when it comes to these things, but my spider sense is tellin me, you’ve had a few sherberts… I could be way off the mark tho…
Loner are you peter parker in disguise if you are give kirstin one for me!
Lovedup, you could be on the case, like Quincy, or Bancek, or some other freaky deaky US cop! However…
…Yes, I am bolloksed!
Reggie, now Lovedup and Kirstin are ladies, so drunk or not, you have spoilt my train of thought!
GP, AW upstairs as spotter of talent and Pep G as the manager. In about 3 years that would make me salivate like the tought of LL and KD!
Zorro what part of islington are you from was it any where near the packington estate!
Great read that. Guardiola huh…i wouldnt complain at all.
And while on the topic of Dunst….No. She aint my cup of tea as they say.
Franchise will be pleased as fuck. His lover Forlan scored a left footed half volley from all of 30 yards.
Reggie, nah I lived in Camden Tahn. My old man ran the Mother Red Cap long before it became the World’s End, then we moved to Swiis Cottage to a battle cruiser called The Britannia which ‘enery Copper opend in 73!
Was ther ’til they hoiked me to SW London in 84! Never forgiven them!
I think if Wenger was to have a say in his replacement Blanc would be a choice. French, young, successful…perfect fit.
Zorro; As much as I appreciate the thought of you likin me givin that ginger from Spiderman, one. I gotta say, Im a dude! Was only fuckin about before! Sorry for any recriminating catholic confessionals that may ensue…
Pep Guardiola as our manager? Jeeez! Give him a chance before he has to endure the crap he’d obviously get from certain sections of our great ‘support’
Stu, have met Franchise. Seems like a great bloke and then he rants on here like some loon. I mean that in a nice way, not dissin’ him!
Stu; I thought Paul le Guen was gonna be AWs replacement, till he went to Rangers and fucked his CV up. Aint really done shit since, or has he?
Lovedup! Fucks sake! You stitched me up good and proper! As Brad would say….’Proper fucked!’
I forgive you though! lol. Not going to think about you and KD anymore though, lol!
Fuck it! I think Bouldy has as good a chance as anyone. He needs to step up soonish tho.
I mean, Pep G has only ONE SEASON as 1st team manager FFS! Klinsmann did pretty well too, well, for a while!
Same as me i was born and raised in Hoxton, moved away from there in 87 fa cup day spuds v cov remember that game well, now residing in carshalton surrey went back there the place is rotten to the core now!
Bouldy? Don’t get too carried away, he is in charge of the U18′s and the fact he has done so well does not make him AW’s successor as even i could coach those lads to success! Don’t forget, a lot of them have passed through Steve Gatting’s hands too!
Youth coaching is different from coaching adults!
Zorro; Soz mate, was only a throwaway comment about me being a lady, but you kinda ran with it!
Reg;
I have absolutely no effin idea who that 70s PI is dude. It werent Petrocelli was it? Just call me Mr Random
Zorro; Was only referring to Bouldy as he aint got much less experience than Guardiola. In 3 years time, however, things may look a whole lot different’ Guardiola couldve been sacked and Bouldy could have 2 years of being 1st team assistant…
Stu good choice with blanc only thing is hes a manc cunt!
Reggie. 87, what a day! Enjoyed a weekend in Brighton with my mates at Uni there.Pissed up most of the time but stayed sober in the afternoon to see Mabbut the cunt give Cov the cup! Clive Allen you wanker, stick that up your arse with your 40+ goals, tosser!
That kind of progession and continuity would appeal to AW, I reckon.
Lovedup, no problems buddy, you done me like a kipper, but no worries, we are sahnd as a pahnd!
No loner it was not petrocelli the opening credits showed him with the parrot/toucan! i think he got done a few years back for assault and battery on his wife!
Off up the apples to me uncle ned where the trouble awaits! Love peace and harmony to all of you, especially Reggie the hard case, Lovedup the 70′s cop show afficionado and Stu too!
Laters, tomorrow my head will hurt and I will join the fray once more, especially when BBK starts his antramartins!
reg; James Brown?
zorro; Laters me old china plate…
Thats why Bould should be instated as number 2 now.
Guardiola was Barca B manager. Their reserves play in a lower league in Spain. It would be like our reserves playing in league 1 or the championship instead of the reserve league. Its better that way because then the “kids” get experience against actual teams who are all growed up rather than players the same age who they will always beat.
Great! Everyone else was given something with their name. Im just “Stu too”….like i was almost forgotten.
Bye Zorr0…i suppose.
Dont forget to take off the mask Zorro!! laters!!
Stu;
This ones for you! Which is well effin weird coz I was trying to figure out who the fuck Reggie Reg was goin on about!
http://www.theisnort.com/isnort.html
It was a cockatoo not a parrot/toucan!
Stu, sorry dude, no offence meant!
Stu, who is a little bit like BBK in the pessimism stakes!
Will that do.
Night.
Well, if some would have it, Wenger doesnt want anything other than a yes man at his side… I find that, not only disrespectful, but kinda simplixtic TBH. The guy would hardly have done what he has for us being like that, or, if he had, then why shouldnt he be like that then! Oh he wins every time with me! Im such an effin AKB!
Lol, cockatoo, parrot toucan! How the fuck could we have got confused? No, it can’t be him because it was a toucan, not a parrot, lollololololol, that has cheered me up no end!
I need to slap a chav!
Its fine for now Zorr0.
Lovedup….that would be a lot better if the fucker didnt giggle like Quagmire afterwards. Giggidy! Still brilliant tho! But drugs are bad….mmmmkayyy!
Lovedup you AKB!
Reg; Oh! A cockatoo, that makes all the difference! There I was searchin high and low for 70s US cop shows featuring Parrakeets, toucans and budgies!
Fine for now Stu? Them’s fightin’words!
Zorr0 falls over at last and everyone says ‘thank fuck!’
zorro; Effin peed myself there! Not larfin, just a dangerously weak bladder!
Bring it on Zorr0. I have no problem fighting a drunk skunk! Improves my chances!
stu; Only saw the first half of that ting!
zorro; Dude! Find a 2nd, 3rd wind and stay the fuck up!
Yeah it was a white cockatoo and he used to kiss it and no im not winding anyone up either!
Well, we’ll have some pretty prestigious opponents pre-season then.. http://goonertalk.com/2009/05/31/hannover-barca-lined-up-for-pre-season/
Oh and we’ll also be playing Barca too…
Reg;
Was this one of those, ahem, ‘specialist films’ from the 70s that my mums boyfriend used to watch with his mates on a Friday night?
Animal Farm???
No Loner it was a tv series from the 70s not smutty or anything like that!
Reg; Just a wild guess like, but was the cockatoo called Fred and the theme tune sung by Sammy Davis Jr? Obviously the show was called Baretta… Cant think how it escaped me this long…
Wont I look like a complete twat if Im effin wrong! Well either that or a complete sack twat… Heads I win, tails you lose I reckon…
Loner how the fuck did you get that? me brains addled trying to remember that!!
cant even abuse myself right! sad twat, not sack twat, obviously! Self abuse was never my forte
reg; The wonders of the tinterweb fella! Ive never heard of that series mate! Sammy D doin the theme toon sounds pretty cool tho! Like the theme tune to the Champions, I think, that was cool too! Was it the same dude who did Amarillo ting???
Stu; before you ask, the Champions is on ITV3 NOW!
Top man Loner im hitting the sack now you have made me a happy man laters Stu,Zorro,and especialy LL top geezer!
reg; You take care fella.Nice one as always mate…
Right, I guess Im seriously babblin to me self now..
Well, I always did larf at my own shit anyways..
LL, dont know what Champions is and dont thing i have itv 2 never mind 3.
And Tony Christy did the Amarillo song.
Night |Reggie…….
Stu;
Tony Christie! Thats the fella. That amorillo tune is shite, but the theme tune is kinda cool. Well to me anyways… Moving on…
Charlie Nicholas is and always will be a Gooner, whereas Ian Wright-wanker wont ever be, IMO.
Whereas Charlie Nick will speak about what he feels Arsenal need in a way that aint sensationalist, or at the behest of his pay masters, Ian Wright has no problem with goin straight for the sensationalist, cliche ridden bollocks!
Where Nicholas is constructive, measured, Wright-wrongun is agenda driven and lazy…
The cunt shouldve stuck to day time TV presenting.
Stu;
Do you have a TV?
And on that note im off too. Until next time Lovedup….which will probably be tomorrow so the wait will be short.
Anyway…Night.
Yes i have a TV. Im currently watching “the saturdays saturday night party” on MTV.
IN case you dont know who the Saturdays are – http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/12582773.jpg
Thanks for the info Stu… enjoy your Music television or whatever its called… Bah humbug…
Laters mate
hmmmm loved up …
who won the F.A cup last night ???
maybe now you can see why some clubs fan bases are growing whilst other’s dwindle ..
ethan;
Hola amigo!
The FA cup you say… well, I know us winning a cuop would do wonders for fake shirt sales in your neck of the woods, but in the big scheme of things, ie money spent, a solitary cup for all of the rubles spunked by Abramovich is scant reward in his jaundiced eyes!
Didnt watch the game, hardly worth a mention apart from the complete over reaction to what Hiddink has achieved considering Ranieri wouldve equaled it, IMO.
But, I sound bitter, who gives A flying fook anyways???
I spose the global market would be a concern of the big wigs and board members, but to me and ‘normal’ Gooners, I cant see how it affects us? Revenue streams… shirt sales… TV.. advertising… package holidays… merchandising… Arsene Wenger ‘I did not see it’ tee shirts… Im sure we may have to tighten our belts as a result…oh wait! We already are!
Must go now….am fooked up beyond all recognition…
loved up !
not everything is fake in thailand thanks !
and in fact you can tell if it is !
there is just as many rich fuckers in thailand as poor ! , just no middle class … like in the UK !
and i dont see many Arsenal kits being sported these past few years ..
sugar coat it any way you want .. but if you
want delusional talk of grandeur your barking up the wrong tree big dogie .
and to answer questions why big clubs can afford to by big names , is they get it back in merchandising and the eventual sale of there stars ..
its an investment .. not a hollow loss for a club to get a big named player ..
when has wengr sold a player at a loss ?
maybe reyes .. but other than that he has killed the pig on any transaction .
so for the arsene brigade to not believe in signing big players is in some ways quite ironic ..
because your boy wenger doesnt loose on a purchase anyhow !
ps : its easier to say fubar’ed !
Anyone on?
Morning lazer!
today after 4 years i attended church and it’s still facking boring! the bloke with the same blah blah blahs made me feel asleep!!!
Morning Cartman, it’s the smell in church I remember, yuk!
religion’s all a lot of bullshit anyhow ..
it control’s the masses ..
dont know why you waste your time …
we evolved from burrowing based mammals
over millions of years ..
not sure what god you should worship ?
BIG BUNNY ?
Morning Geoff!
So who’s post is it today???
Ethan God made me, I was begatted from Adam. It’s Pedro’s post today, he tried to tell me he could write 4 on the spin!
ethan, my parents forced me! i dont really care about these things generally!
Unfortunately I am Church of England (God favours the English because God is English) had I gone to a flick church I may have had some fun, if you get my drift!
Eric Theodore Cartman+ Homer Jay Simpson+ Bartholomew JoJo Simpson+ Bender Bending Rodríguez+ Philip J. Fry+ Peter Löwenbräu Griffin+ All Arsenal legends+ All future Arsenal Legends+ All persons I admire+ me= GOD!
Its confirmed, we play barca on july 13!
uhh sorry, its not confirmed yet!
In what Cartman?
the UNICEF Charity Match against barca!
so big bunny is English ?
1000
I see lucky Guus has been @ it again
……..& Rangers have been @ it again, chamoneeeeeeee!!!
He sure is Ethan!
There is no doubt about it Geoff you are very patriotic.
I’m with you on Rangers Gnarley, if Celtic so want to be Irish, they should be playing in Ireland, against teams like Donegal and Munster.
Well Gnarley you being Aussie makes you related to him as well!
Their is a blog coming people… just sorting it now.
Bloody hell! where has all this Cesc stuff come from all of a sudden
Geoff
C of E, thats me
Every year Gnarley, just like Vieira and Henry!
The chosen one then!
C of E is my religion, & Henry VIII is my God
Et U!
I loved that guy.
Just watched the new Star Trek. Where’s the new post?
Pedro say coming up, what’s the film like?
Its pretty good actually. Better then I expected tbh.
football is my life, arsenal is my religion and thierry henry is my god!!
cliched isn’t it…
So the lazy journalists are at it again I see. More tripe about Cesc, no way does that happen imo. So what he can go sit on the bench behind Xavi and Iniesta? Journalists have the worst imagination sometimes.
LAzer
With you there
So Barry & Tevez are off to man city then
City have an unlimited budget and they want to buy Tevez AND Barry??? Wow! Most of us on here could come up with better list of players if money was no object.
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