After last weekends disappointing draw with Birmingham we’ll be looking to bounce back against struggling Fulham. With Man Utd going top and looking good and van Persie’s injury situation getting increasing frustrating it hasn’t been a good week to be a Gooner. My mate raised the point that Robin’s injury could very easily cost us the title and as much as I hate to admit it I think he’s right.

The only two injuries we have are to van Persie and Djourou, plus those away in Africa. We’ll cope without Robin for the moment; we’ve had too all season pretty much anyway so it’s not really something new to us. In this article Wenger admits that it wrong to start him against Spurs and he’s also suggested that Robin is ‘depressed’ seeing his team mates going out and playing when he can’t. So he’s gone back to Holland instead of just sitting out of training for a few weeks.

I’m expecting the same team as we saw last week just with Rosicky coming in for Walcott. The Boss has been talking about Theo today say that he will make it at Arsenal. There’s a bit of doubt about him as he came with so much expectation but Arsene insists we must give him time. So here’s the team:

Last year it was a disaster at Craven Cottage. It was my first away game for about 5 years and I was left very upset with the game. Song got a rare start and absolutely blew it, he was awful in the first half and we ended up losing 2-1. You can’t put it all down to him though, I remember it looked live van Persie was the only man on the pitch who looked like he cared.

With the draw last week and what happened last year I think our hearts might be in this a bit more. Cesc is due a decent performance too. Eduardo and Adebayor are really going to cause them problems and I hope they get a couple of goals each. Anything but a win is absolutely unacceptable and United would surely open a gap on us. A convincing win is what’s needed, three or four nil; that would make us feel better.

I’m not going to be able to catch the game tomorrow, the tickets were a ridiculous price and I’m trying to save money. It’s not on TV but they’re showing at Ashburton Grove on the screens, I don’t think I’m going to go to that but I might change my mind in the morning. Enjoy the game however you’re following it.

Thanks for reading.