Cesc struggling for Hull, two more doubtful

By Richard Clarke

Cesc Fabregas is highly likely to miss the trip to Hull on Saturday while Bacary Sagna and Sol Campbell are considered to be "doubts".

The Arsenal captain sat out the midweek win over Porto due to a hamstring injury and afterwards Arsène Wenger classed him as "50:50" for the game at the KC Stadium. When the manager spoke to TV Online on Thursday morning, his odds had got slightly worse.

"It is a little bit more than 50 against now," said Wenger. "That means he will be very short for Saturday. We will assess him today. He is starting to run now but we think it would a gamble to play him on Saturday.

"Apart from him, we have an uncertainty with Sagna on his ankle. We also have a problem with Sol Campbell and how he will recover. He finished the Porto game with cramp. They are ‘doubts' not ‘big doubts'. But we have to refresh the squad a little so we will see."

Ahead of the Porto game, Wenger admitted the calf injury that had kept William Gallas out for the past month was "back to the starting point". On Thursday, the manager did not know how long the Frenchman would be absent but he was starting the job of finding out.

"I don't know [about William]," he said. "Wednesday was a day of rest and recovery for the players so we have to deeply examine everything to see where we go."

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Is song is eligible to play versus Hull?

I doubt Song will drop down to CB to partner TV.. Macam tak tao lagi ngan AW.. it would be Egghead, unless he also injured.

The Gunners are currently level on points with Chelsea (who have a game in hand) and are two behind leaders United, having won all four Premier League games since back-to-back defeats at the hands of their rivals.

They bounced back to beat Liverpool and having been much further off the pace earlier in the season, Wilson says this campaign could well follow the same pattern as that famous Double-winning year 39 years ago - right down to a crucial game at White Hart Lane, where Arsenal head on April 10.

"Ok after the Man United and Chelsea games, it was a huge downpoint for the club, the team and for Arsene," he said.

"But I was lucky enough to see him a couple of days later before the Liverpool game and I reminded him just how good his team were.

"I said then there are 13 games left, the run-in I think, is as good as you could wish for and I would remind you that 39 years ago, we'd just been beaten really badly by Brian Clough's Derby side - this is our double side of 1970-71 - and we had 13 games to go.

"I think we were 11 or 12 points behind Leeds United and everyone said we were out of it, that Leeds might as well start celebrating and we might not even finish second.

"But we won 11, drew one, lost one and won the championship by one point. What I am saying it is absolutely feasible, because if we did it these boys can do it as well."

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If memory serves me right, the very few managers that clashed with Wenger were sacked for various reasons.

Mick McCarthy, for over celebration when his team scored the winning goals against us in the last few mins. Was it West Ham?

Phil Brown, for the shit that he said about us and Fabregas.

Martin Jol, challenged Wenger to a fight and reminding others how strong is he.

It would be super if he returned to Arsenal next year, and then win the CL again as we become the first team in recent years to retain the cup after winning it this coming May.

Honestly speaking, it's an arduous task even if we beat Barca... I reckon Inter would be even more difficult to manage than Barca due to Mourinho's miserly defence and tactical foulings.

Well since it wasn't such a serious challenge hopefully it can be rescinded to 1 match ban or 2 at the most.

eto??? did he ever in horrible injured? cisse yes but where is he playing?? greek league and i dun think he is better than his days @ french league

but pires yes, he took whole season... which is must like dudu case now but pires having more play time then dudu...

i tot pires was broken his leg during 01/02? he took whole season to gain back his form at 03/04

Sir Alex Ferguson questions FA decision not to extend Thomas Vermaelen's ban for a 'frivolous' appeal
By Chris Wheeler

Sir Alex Ferguson has questioned why the FA did not hand out the same punishment to Thomas Vermaelen as Rio Ferdinand and give the Arsenal defender an additional one-match ban for a ‘frivolous’ appeal against his sending-off against West Ham last weekend.

Arsenal failed to get Vermaelen’s red card overturned, and Ferguson said: ‘It’s so inconsistent, it’s difficult to analyse why Rio’s was frivolous and that wasn’t.

‘Only the FA can answer that. They don’t come out with a report on it, do they? It’s sitting in the chambers of their minds.’

This draw does not change the fact we still have to win in Nou Camp.