The Arsenal youth team are now clear at the top of the league by beating the chavs youth team 2 nil, but it could have been 10 but for the profligacy of Gilles Sunnu and Luke Freeman, there was another but I can’t remember his name.

I watched the game last night on the wonder of Arsenal TV, so we may have played last week for all I know, so if we did, please don’t shout, I enjoyed it regardless!

It was all impressive and the fact that we have one team at the top is progress indeed, maybe we have a chance to win the FA youth cup at last!

We continue to be linked with 300 players and I can’t understand it to be perfectly honest, it’s still 3 to 4 months until the end of the January transfer window and it won’t stop, what on earth will it be like by January, the thing is we’ll buy no one so what’s the point in all the speculation.

Maybe Bischoff we feature against Everton now he’s proved his fitness, maybe Diaby as well, to have options to Song and Denilson makes me happy, so that’s at least one positive from this dreadful enforced break.

I had to turn down a chance to go to watch England and the usual hospitality that goes with it, so I bet Theo gets his second consecutive hat trick.

Not a lot else apart from Pires asking Wenger to manage France, why would he? He has the safest job in football here at the Grove.

Have a nice day Grovers.

P.S. If you have tickets  you want to shift for Everton, don’t  let them go to waste… allow Le Grove to put you in touch with  a passionate Gooner! We have a list of people willing to snap them up!

So captain Billy says he knows he’s not been that good and perhaps he’s tired, bless! Why don’t you give him a rest Arsene and bring in Djourou for the season? Give the captaincy to Kolo or Cesc and see where it takes us.

I really feel for footballers, in a climate where up to 3 million people will be unemployed and millions more financially ruined is strange to hear that someone who kicks a ball for a living and earns £100k a week can be feeling tired two months into the season, it’s bizarre! Still his tiredness could be the opening that young Turk Johan has been looking for (yes I know he’s Swiss).

The England vice captain has said that Theo can be better than Michael Owen and Christiano Ronaldo, well Theo if you heard that, then go out and prove him right, I think you can be the best English player we’ve had since Gary Lineker, and him being an ex spud, it hurts me to say that.

Someone asked yesterday what did the directors take out this year, I have the accounts and this is what they say.

Hill-Wood £75k, Carr £25k, Bracewell-Smith £25k, Friar £298k, Fizman £25k, Keswick £25k, Edelman £1,056k and that included £367k as a bonus, which I suspect was his pay off to keep quiet.

So in all that’s less than Ray Parlour got for going to Middlesbrough. Not a massive amount in real terms and it shows that the boss Danny Fizman is not bleeding the club dry, so a big well done Danny.

Another point I wanted to clear up, Le Exchange is a place where we put people in touch with tickets they may not be using, we do not sell tickets as that’s illegal, we just put people in touch with others, a service for Grovers to Grovers.

Oh and Rio, in your much principled world (don’t mention drugs testing though) where you mention that Almunia isn’t English, so shouldn’t play for us, what’s your take on your Canadian team mate, Hargreaves???

Only one week and two days to go before we play again people, keep your chins and chinesses up, I know that’s not a real word, but because it’s not a real word, it’s not spelt wrong, so spelling police, eat your hearts out.

I’m glad to see the yellow card system worked yesterday, it was very pleasant out there! Have a great day Grovers.

Yeah right, sure it is! I jest of course, that’s my dream move and blonde girl, you know who you are, we met when you had a construction hat on two years ago.

Okay so what do I mean? Well every time Cesc goes back to the third world they ask him questions like… Cesc do you like the English weather and fish and chips? …Cesc says, no and yes, who wouldn’t? …then the third world press say,

‘Cesc says Barcelona would be my dream move’

What a bunch of wankers, he said he likes fish and chips, what has that got to do with leaving if we don’t win trophies???

I guess having difficulties reading and writing doesn’t help.

Anyway Arsenal have got to start a system whereby we don’t have to go through this shit, year in, year out. It is now getting ridiculous, Vieira, Henry, Flamini, Hleb, Adebayor and this seasons pick… Cesc Fabregas.

Stop putting the fans through this bollocks every year Arsenal, I expect Cesc will deny it before you do, if on the other hand he did say it, then sell him, he didn’t, but you get my meaning.

This club is Arsenal, it’s been around for well over a 100 years and it’s bigger than the board, the manager and any player, so it’s time the club started acting like the big company they think they are and say this is bollocks.

Someone Welsh said Aaron Ramsey is as good as Cesc was at 17, I think they’re right, I thought Cesc was okay at 17 but I think Ramsey is stronger and has a better eye for a pass, but we’ll take care of him Milan, we promise.

The BBC were today crowing about the Mancs being £650mil in debt (funny I thought it was £850mil) and we’re £260mil in debt, but as always they forgot to mention our debt is covered by £300 mil in property sales and a cast iron fixed interest loan.

If I were Arsenal I would lease out those flats out on a 2 year deal, the market will come back, history has taught us that.

So, message for today, Arsenal say something about Cesc, Cesc say something about Cesc and Milan do you have anything special you’d like us to do with Ramsey before we give him to you in 4 years time.

Have a great day Grovers I’m mostly playing golf, see you this afternoon. Business of course!

P.S. We have a Fenerbache away ticket in Le Exchange for a fiver, e-mail me if you are interested. Also, the tickets have dried up… if you have any unwanted spares, don’t waste them… sell them to a Gooner less fortunate than you!