Ramble Meets... Perry Groves
Football Ramble
Stak Production
4.6 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
As well as enjoying a 12-year professional career consisting of over 400 appearances, Groves was a big part of the team that won two league titles for Arsenal under George Graham and was a fan favourite at Highbury, thanks to his exciting wing play and endearing nature. In this exclusive interview, Perry discusses his journey to fulfilling his dream of playing for Arsenal, the two achilles tendon injuries that forced him to retire at just 28 and his more recent career in the media.
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| 0:00.0 | Good thing is about you Perry, you're a radio pro as well so I don't need to tell you all |
| 0:04.2 | the boring stuff about using the mic properly. |
| 0:06.0 | No, no, so you just talk it that way, don't you? |
| 0:08.0 | Yeah, you can hear yourself when you want it. |
| 0:09.5 | Yeah, sorted. |
| 0:10.5 | Joining me on today's episode of Ramblemeets is Perry Groves, notching up the best part |
| 0:14.7 | of 400 appearances in a professional career spanning some 12 years is well known for being |
| 0:19.5 | a part of the Arsenal team that won two league titles on the George Graham and was always |
| 0:23.4 | something of a cult hero at Hybrids due to his exciting wing play and cheeky demeanor. |
| 0:28.2 | His career was cut short cruelly by two serious injuries to his Achilles tendon and he retired |
| 0:32.3 | from the game at just 28 years of age. |
| 0:35.1 | Of his signing for Arsenal at the age of 21, he said, when people say it was a dream to |
| 0:39.0 | play for the club they supported as a boy, for me it was real. |
| 0:42.2 | It went way back with my family, they were my club. |
| 0:45.0 | Welcome Perry Groves. |
| 0:46.0 | How you doing? |
| 0:47.0 | How's that? |
| 0:48.0 | Actually, that sounds like it was quite a good play. |
| 0:50.4 | You should be my agent. |
| 0:57.8 | Perry Groves, Arsenal's second greatest ginger player ever, Alan Ball was the first, Ray |
| 1:03.0 | Pala doesn't count, he was a ginger in denial. |
| 1:05.0 | Perry, I wonder if you're a 16 year old boy coming through now knowing what you know |
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