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Colchester: Soccer legend Groves is fined for bad behaviour
9:36am Thursday 8th May 2008
A former Arsenal and Colchester United football player has been fined by police for "abusive and insulting" language and behaviour.
Perry Groves, who still lives in Colchester, was issued with a fixed penalty notice by officers after he was arrested in Crouch Street.
An Essex Police spokesman said: "A 43-year-old man from Colchester was issued with a fixed penalty notice for a section 5 public order offence, for using abusive and insulting words and behaviour, likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress."
He would not confirm the identity of the arrested man.
When contacted by the Gazette, Mr Groves said he did not want to comment, but dismissed the incident as "nothing" and insisted the fixed penalty notice was "just a fine".
The 43-year-old began his footballing career as an apprentice at Colchester United in 1981. He turned professional a year later, playing 142 league games and scoring 26 goals for the club over the next four seasons.
In 1986 he transferred to Arsenal, where he played for six years before moving to Southampton.
The Crouch Street incident took place at about 1.15am on April 26.
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a resident, says...
11:02am Thu 8 May 08
Legend...haha
Hardly, though he likes to think that.
Ginsters Dragon, Wivenhoe says...
11:35am Thu 8 May 08
Jason, Colchester says...
12:10pm Thu 8 May 08
And perhaps for the fact he scored two hat-tricks for the U's against Southend in the same season.
At least in Colchester we don't have open top bus parades for something that happened 30 years ago.
Tim, Colchester says...
1:29pm Thu 8 May 08
Feisty CBC, Colchester says...
1:58pm Thu 8 May 08
MrC, North Essex says...
2:28pm Thu 8 May 08
Footballing legends:
Sir Bobby Charlton - check
Sir Geoff Hurst - check
Sir Bobby Robson - check
Perry Groves - erm....
MrC, North Essex says...
2:30pm Thu 8 May 08
Say It Like It Is, Colchester says...
3:11pm Thu 8 May 08
MrC wrote:Of course we didn't have one 30 years ago, rather we had one two years ago, ten years ago and sixteen years ago.
Jason - Col U don't have open top bus parades for things that happened 30yrs ago? Why would they? What did they do? Footballing legends: Sir Bobby Charlton - check Sir Geoff Hurst - check Sir Bobby Robson - check Perry Groves - erm....
As far as drinking is concerned Perry could learn a lot from legendary drunks George Burley and Alan Brazil.
Rumour has it that Alan Lee is also a drunk, which explains why he falls over on the pitch so much.
MrC, North Essex says...
3:45pm Thu 8 May 08
MrC, North Essex says...
3:48pm Thu 8 May 08
Surely the highlight of their existence was in 1971? Surely you were there....it seems that approximately 100,000 others claim to have been!!
Meryl, Colchester says...
6:07pm Thu 8 May 08
MrC, North Essex says...
7:13pm Thu 8 May 08
Where are all those fantastic players who were on the bus two years ago? They saw the light and got out PDQ.
Anyway back to the Perry Groves "Legend " status...
Feisty CBC, Colchester says...
10:21pm Thu 8 May 08
Town Fan, Colchester (previously Ipswich) says...
8:25am Fri 9 May 08
Feisty CBC wrote:WRONG CHOICE!!!!
Mr. C you is so bitter and twisted coz you made the wrong choice when you was a kid and have to support the tractor girls. The only real farming you can do now is ploughing back thirty years in ya reference book. By the way 2-0! Up the U's and up yours Mr. C.
What is wrong with you col u fans?why can you not see that Ipswich are by far the better team? Winning the FA Cup is a fantastic achievment, 30 years ago or otherwise. winning the FA Cup in '78 and the UEFA Cup in '81 are in living memory so why would we need to look in a reference book? Should change your name to pathetic and jealous CBC. When you get promoted to the premiership and finish in 5th place in your first season in the big time, then you can say you are the better team, not a 2-0 victory in a season that you were relegated!!
ExPatNortholtGirl, Colchester says...
6:02pm Fri 9 May 08
As for his book selling out, just look around you, the great British public are besotted with celebrity. I reckon if the former Highbury toilet cleaner brought out a book, dishing the dirt so to speak, it'd be a bestseller.
MrC, North Essex says...
7:29pm Fri 9 May 08
you is so bitter and twisted coz you made the wrong choice when you was a kid
Feisty - are you Ali G?!
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MrC, North Essex says...
9:45am Thu 8 May 08
1.
1. An unverified story handed down from earlier times, especially one popularly believed to be historical.
2. A body or collection of such stories.
3. A romanticized or popularized myth of modern times.
2. One that inspires legends or achieves legendary fame.
3.
1. An inscription or a title on an object, such as a coin.
2. An explanatory caption accompanying an illustration.
3. An explanatory table or list of the symbols appearing on a map or chart.
Nope can't see it either...