So here it is people, the first ever Le Grove podcast! I haven’t listened to it back, all I know is the microphones worked and I started and stopped it in the right place.
It was recorded with Alex Fynn who is co-author of Arsenal: the making of a modern superclub (the other half being Kevin Whitcher of the Online Gooner). It’s a truly fantastic read if you’re looking for clarity on the last 10 years of Arsenal. Alex counts Arsene as one of his neighbours and he’s worked around football and Arsenal for years.
We had a good chat about all sorts of stuff regarding the club. We spoke about the United game, George Graham, David Dein (his future), the commercials and the future of Arsene.
Take a listen if you get the chance and drop some constructive, praise-full feedback for me in the comments.
After 4.5 years, it’s here, please enjoy!
P.S. If you’d like a copy of the book, here is the magic code to get you a discount!
First !!
breaking news : psg sign eden hazard
Third and loving it!
Nice! i’ve being waiting for this
You sound sexy~~ haha.
Rikki
Tell me u are jokin
eden hazard agree sign for psg
Great podcast – still listening to it now. Bit of back ground noise!! Sounds like somone on the phone
nice one.
podcast is’nt loading for some reason?
Oooh check you out!
riki- where is this ”breaking news” on Hazard then? Cant’ see it anywhere bar your claim? Do you have inside info by any chance??? #cynical&sarcasm
Can’t seem to ‘open’ podcast, do I need to access it via something I haven’t got on my lap top?
still loading W.T.F. this is extracting the urine!
arsenal no chance to sign hazard
Good listen! Some interesting points indeed.
Try this Scott goo.gl/ERONi
Congratulations…..
Outstanding piece of journalism…
Well done…
It should open in the browser and on your mobile.
Can’t wait to hear it – but boy, more than an hour to download it!
If you’re going to do them regularly (and I hope you do!) maybe we shiuld pass the hat around and Le Grove some bigger pipes!
An excellant read Pedroni. Some very salient point’s made.
it just seems to be doing the same thing,just continuing to load. with nothing happening.thanks for the help anyway.will keep trying pedro.it wont defeat me.
Brilli
Just listened to it!! Great podcast pedro. The background noise eent away after 5 mins
Scott – it’s downloading / streaming – gonna take a while!
I’ve downloaded 24% and still have 50 mins to go!
Hi Rob – did you stream it or download it? How long did it take to kick in?
http://media41.podbean.com/pb/b3f0f6bb987aefbd3c35536390e3485c/4f2428a9/blogs41/443779/uploads/AlexFynnInterview-LeGrovePodcast1.mp3
It just came up 410 GONE will keep trying.
ok grassy cheers.good things come to those who wait.(well i hope so anyway)
Alex Flynn is a football guru, i am always interested in what he has to say (Arsene Wenger)
Shame he isn’t interested in what the fans have to say! (thats not a dig at Alex, ain’t heard him yet I can’t listen its loading)
grrrrr
Ok 5 minutes in i like Alex, ha ha
Evan – you’re streaming already – how long did that take to begin?
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!
I used Kwik fit’s link started listening and then paused, let it load like you would a youtube vid on a slow day, its now playing fine.
Good luck
According to the Arsenal Brigade, Arsenal have agreed a fee for Lucas Barrios and he’s on his way to the Emirates today
Who?
I did same thing grassy
loved the podcast, pedro….truth only the truth in the podcast….
looking forward 4 the next one
cool – thx – I’ll do it that way next time …
I hope that’s a lie Kwik Fit,
Lucas Ramón Barrios Cáceres (age 27) Argentina CF
2009 – Borussia Dortmund (75 apps) (35 goals)
2010 – Paraguay national (21 apps) (6 goals)
P.S. Don’t pause the podcast and leave the room for a drink top up as i got some kinda 410 error, what ever that means?
It meant i had to restart the pod cast and now it won’t load. I ain’t that techie so it may be PC who knows.
Pedro: What i heard was decent, good job
kwik-
that barrios rumor is disputed by other twats on twatter.
work straight away on my iphone from the link on the original post!
Dont worry about Hazard he is a french Glenn Helder or french Theo Walcott.
when I downloaded the file with PC, it seems it worked, just can’t check as I have no sound of PC, but the file was like 73.5Mb.
pedro-
great interview. as a person who spends half his days interviewing people, i must say you gave a splendid effort. interviews are really difficult and require an immense amount of preparation; well done. i really look forward to further podcasts and hearing your growth as an interviewer.
only complaint: introduce yourself to the listeners next time.
and I agree Primorac is a big part, and he’s the first I fire on FM.
First lol
interesting podcast
might buy his book after all
and so that’s the Peroni that gives you such a sweet voice ?
Danish: I think Hazard is actually Belgian but don’t take my word for it
Lets hope it’s fake then frenchie
ig-
belgian?!?! shocking.
and before some go on Djourou being french african, he’s actually swiss
kwik-
indeed, fella.
i think wenger is lost in the transfer market. as mr flynn suggested, too many “yes” men and not enough “go do” men surround ogl.
he’s a petit suisse
http://www.specialites-de-france.com/images/upload/le-petit-suisse.jpg
ig-
stop! djourou is swiss!!?!?!
yep, 40% work rate
ok he’s born in Abidjan like me, but HE likes to save on taxes
Excellent podcast !! all our deliberations and arguments in LG nicely summarized … good job guys!
85% cacao
born in the country that produce the most of it, playing for the country that makes the most of it
http://www.lindt.com/ca/swf/fra/produits/excellence/sachets/excellence-85-cacao/
That insight into Wenger provided by Alex is actually quite sad. Wenger basically was in the right place at the right time and made the most of it. When he has to make thing’s happen himself he come’s up short.
ok – I’ve been trying for an hour and a half – with no success – can someone tell me exactly what they did to stream the podcast please!
I clicked on the link on the page from my iphone.
IG – thx – the ‘webcast link in the blog text, right?
How long did it take for anything to start happening?
don’t worry Mr Flynn, there’s plenty Arsenal fans who don’t take you for a fraud, more like a nice external view more objective and informed than most and always very respectful.
can’t go wrong.
GK: yep, the “PODCAST” blue link
GK: started playing and loading at same time for me, I’m going through my sky wifi router and Im close to the exchanger, so close to 20mb.
Thx IG (still waiting for anything to happen!)
if you’re on 3G Im not sure it’s gonna work on iphone, quite a big file for a 3G connection …
how much do you pay for a 20mb service?
Pedro: in future, try also to save under wmv, might have better results linking-wise.
not sure, included with the rest of my sky, over 70 all together, including sky sports and movie1 and land line
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya13kHIEREQ
“the gentleman from Abu Dhabi”
I’d have called him a son of a well
Great podcast. Really hope wenger can get a right hand man like dein was otherwise the future does’nt look to bright from what alex was saying.
PedroL for example you can use youtube’s tools to join a mp3 file and a picture, then the youtube link is much easier to deal with by most browsers
next summer, we have something like 120 m to spend.
add that podcast to the AKB guide for every AKB before posting.
so much for Newcastle
glad I stayed away from that game.
they’ll still be a trouble in the league though.
Pedro: looking at the amount of comments atm, everybody’s listening to you
and I can tell you Wenger feels he’s been forced to buy those experienced players, only picked the ones he could really sell quick, and still doesn’t see all the flaws in all his favorite players.
it’s our money Arsene, go back to study your economics, and learn what’s repeated over and over, you have to speculate to accumulate
podcast of the decade Pedro, Mr Flynn, hat down and eaten
10?
Ye must say for your first podcast you could’nt of done any better.cant wait for the next one pedro.
Deschamps to Arsenal, Wenger to Marseille?
that would be ironical but a great mental challenge for Wenger.
Just listening now…..
Slightly unfair on GG, saying he couldn’t move with the times. Did Arsenal ever truely back him in the transfer market back then?
Just asking.
I really enjoyed that podcast and will be buying the book. Many thanks and well done.
sorry, couldn’t resist, one for Scott
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z4ijIQYYNo
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_Scott
Joppa I think GG helped himself in the transfer market if memory serves
Loving listening to the GG / transfer options in 80s / Rioch stuff.
Kwik, just think it slightly unfair to say he couldn’t move with the times. Although it’s kind of like Wenger now.
Ian Wright “Where do I sign?”…and people knock him. My all time fav Arsenal player. Love him.
Rioch’s days were numbered from the start!
“Jon McGinlay would have scored that”….LMAO!
one reading for Wenger: Conversations with God.
Hopefully, after reading the first page he’ll remember, and that there’s nothing bad about money, only what you make of it.
Wenger turned down by Hill-Wood….fkin says it all.
Joppa: it’s exactly like Wenger, he doesn’t mean more or less, Flynn he’s not an offensive type of person, more politicaly correct than he should sometimes… (later . . . 6 years too late… it’s the same Alex
)
Wow…close links to Spurs…fck you Scholar…missed a trick there!
‘is
You talking to me I.Goonz how dare you!!!ha ha
I just love that song, most underrated AC/DC song, I truly miss Bon Scott in that band, his voice on that tune is something the next singers have had difficulties to match (like Gillian for Deep Purple), RIP Bon Scott.
And your name just made it happen, sorry.
S.Quiller -> Squealer
good time to bet on Real to win
That’s so funny i’ve not heard that name in years. one of my old mates always used to call me that.gave me a good laugh.
with my name you can make that joke, Pedro knows
http://www.blackanddecker.com/
Dein’s mantra “When I get up in the morning and looking in the mirror I see get a winning team”.
Team above stadium.
Scott: same here with the song, hadn’t ‘reminisced’ it since couple years, heard it first back in south of France like 20 years ago, and lost it on a stolen ipod couple years ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J13d4rvjtYQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eyFiClAzq8
I had forgotten all about that name until u mentioned it.last time i was called it was about ten twelve years ago.you made me laugh.anyway going out now,hope for a good result from the gooners tommorw c u goonz.
“Everything should be performance related”
Damn bloody right it should.
“Exceptional players earn exceptional wages”.
Again bang on.
Great job pedders. Love the pdcast. Well done! one last thing, dont u think it should be available on itunes? im just saying cause as much as i cant stand apple or itunes. Thats where you’ll get the most exposure. Also you wont have the downloading problems your having now. Anyways cheers on the pod pedders
Can only listen to it for a minute at a time on my iphone before it keeps freezing..
Any help IG? Or anyone?
O no way GOONZ that song from the PIXES is one of my all time favourites.wow love that song!
Joppa,
it’s stating the bleeding obvious, it’s the disparity in wages that gives the low earners something to aspire to, been saying for years that Wenger’s leftie utopia is doomed to failure…
Fantastic podcast Pedro (that was you, wasn’t?)
“To have a good business, you have got to have a good team”.
But Wenger has absolute power – this is madness and cannot end well.
Mu theme for it
In order to have a successful business you need a successful team
What a powerful true saying
Joppa,
We shared the same mind there
Not heard that in years BEAUTIFUL!
An hour and 6 minutes of pure joy and so much information, great really
This is the Le Grove podcast, sheer quality and substance
Bergkamp63 is dead right when he calls for a complete cull.
“Speculate to accumulate”. But no one telling Wenger.
Alonso, what dropped bollock that was. Said at the time he was the one Liverpool would miss most.
And I didn’t know we were sniffing around that Platini
Sounds ironic now adays, isn’t it
Some great truths about the Arsenal
Sad to listen to that, but we were a mega club and didn’t act like one
How painful is that, how true though
Ricky: maybe too many people, maybe your phone too full, maybe 3G
ok, let’s go nostalgique
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUGvZsZt3UY
Hope that puts to bed all the AKBesh excuse making about the board restraining Arsene’s transfers ability, he’s the one to decide on it, he’s to blame and the only accountable for the performances of the team
They were a mega club but didn’t behave like one so can they be one again?
FFS!
If everything should be performance based, how is Wenger still on 7 million a year?
The bits about the Dein Arsene relationship is interesting too
The irony of it all is that when the shit does hit the fan Arsenal are going to have to spend their way out of it!
here’s for Valmont and Les Liaisons Dangereuses
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQhT73OZRyM
GK: because there’s no one to tell him he could do better.
Excellent interview and Podcast. Don’t always agree with the writing on the site, but if the podcast can keep up this quality, I’ll listen to it every time. Nice one
Phones def not too full & im using my wifi so not a 3g problem…
Oh well.
Thanks anyway IG.
Joppa: hopefully by then, the new deals will be on the horizon, and that won’t be a problem. it’s just sad that we have to wait.
Interesting points on Wenger isolating himself.
Very interesting in that the podcast started with talking about moving wit the times (GG) and is ending with Wenger having to move with the times.
http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion/columnists/ian-winwood/The-Ian-Winwood-column-The-Emirates-Stadium-was-meant-to-help-Arsenal-compete-with-the-likes-of-Manchester-United-so-what-went-wrong-article858041.html
I know it’s the Mirror but he seems to be saying the same things we’ve been saying on Le Grove…
Glad the Mancs are out but can’t shake this bad feeling about tomorrow… hope I’m wrong.
“Who is going to tell him?”…..great way to end.
FANTASTIC PODCAST
Really loved it. Well done Le Grove.
I love listening to stuff which involves the history of the club and things I didn’t know that were going on at the time.
Could have listened to another three hours of that. Bet he had plenty more to say as well.
Some strong valid critics he run there about Arsene
You can’t fault his arguments
Arsene, move with time, or move on!
Re-affirmed my support for the club. Just a shame there are so many duds now there.
Tough game tomorrow.
Ricky: try again later then
Cheers for the kind words everyone! Think I’ll have to do some more going forward.
But there were some background noises
You should try a bit more quite place next one
How did we end up the worst of all possible worlds?
TOPCAST!!!! WELL DONE