Henry and Van Persie out of Bolton game 25 November, 2006

Thierry Henry has picked up a neck injury which will rule him out of today’s trip to The Reebok. Luckily it’s only a minor problem, which will probably see him missing just this one game, but to be without our best player for this tricky match is not good. Also Robin Van Persie will not be able to step in for the injured captain as he is suspended for this game. I didn’t know that Robin was suspended and on the Arsenal.com match report of the last game it says he wasn’t booked. I don’t know, but here it says he’s suspended for the game. It’s a possibility that Baptista or Walcott might get a shot at playing upfront but I’m pretty sure we’ll have Adebayor as a lone striker, something I’m not pissing myself with excitement about…

To add to those two we’ve also got Rosicky and Gallas (plus Lauren and Diaby) out. I think we we’ll go 4-5-1 against Bolton to bulk up our midfield, which I think is the right thing to do against Bolton. The Back five will be Lehmann, Eboue, Toure, Senderos and Clichy. Then in midfield I think we’ll have to go with Hleb, Fabregas, Gilberto, Baptista and Ljungberg. I don’t think Walcott has the physical presence to play today and I can already see him in my head making runs down the right but then getting a strong tackle and losing possession. Then the lone striker will have to be Adebayor, I’ve got nothing against him, it’s just like Henry, he works best with a supporting striker and I don’t think he’ll be very effective up there on his own. So he’ll need the likes of Baptista and Fabregas to help him up top.

I’m not worried about today’s game, I think we have enough to go up there and do some damage. I’d love us to win comfortably though to put those bad trips up north behind us. If we come back with a draw then so be it, it’s better than losing which we have done some much of over the years. The game is on PremPlus so it’ll probably be on down at your local if you don’t have it at home. I’ll get a match report up here asap as usual.

Arsene Wenger thinks we can still win the title this year. We might be 12 points behind Man Utd but that sort of difference has been caught up before. I’ll say it again, football just takes a bit of luck and that’s it; this season we’ve had awful luck and have dropped 8 points at home in this season’s Premiership. All we need is for us to find a bit of consistency and for the others to go through a bad patch and we’ll be right back up there. Chelsea make the trip to Old Trafford tomorrow and the best thing we can hope for is an injury-fest or otherwise a draw.

Speaking of Chelsea, Didier “The Cunt” Drogshit reckons he’s better than Henry! He’s scored 2 more than Thierry this campaign, which has been largely down to some incredibly bad luck and the new formation. I hate Drogba; he’s up there with Ronaldo, Rooney and Sheringham. Oh and he’s been telling us what he gets up to in his spare time:

“I relax when I play computer games, I have fun playing as Henry and shooting wide of the goal! I’m kidding. It just seems my virtual copy doesn’t play as well as the Henry character – although in real life, especially this season, I’m better than him.”

Okay. There is no doubt that Henry is better than Drogba, in fact it’s not even worth contemplating it. Oh and as for the computer games thing…what an idiot. I hope you break your leg

Enjoy the game today people, see ya.