Exaggerate them, make them seem worse than they are, really stretch out the time it will take for the player to come back.

Why?

Is it not obvious?

This new Walcott injury and the manager's comments on the official website seem not quite fitting to me, on one hand the injury is not as bad as expected as the scan is clear, but then he says it will be up to 6 weeks till we see him again in an Arsenal shirt.

Cesc Fabregas was in talismanic form as he helped dismantle Sporting Braga 6-0 in Champions League Matchday 1.
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On the face of it this was another quintessential Arsenal victory against Sporting Braga but this 6-0 demolishing of the Champions League débutantes was built on clinical attacking play and a solid defensive foundation.

In his press conference after the Braga game Arsene was asked if he expected Wilshere to play a central role so early in the season. In his usual forthright manner Arsene shared his wisdom,

Honestly, no. But football teaches you one thing be open-minded and never have a definite opinion.

With Manuel Almunia as number one choice, Arsenal will not win a trophy. It's as simple as that really.

The Spanish keeper made another embarrassing mistake yesterday which helped West Brom earn a shock 3-2 victory at the Emirates stadium.

It seems to me that the majority of Arsenal fans wanted the club to sign either Mark Schwarzer or Shay Given, who were both linked with moves to the club.

Good Supporters? By Paul Fowler A few months ago I made a conscious decision never ever to post any opinions on football blogs again. Being a fervent gooner, and apparently currently undergoing the phenomenon that is trophy-cold-turkey which if you believe the press, is a football condition only experienced by Arsenal fans I [.

Calamity keeper remains the best of an achingly bad lot It seems that Monsieur Wenger has made his bed... and now must lie in it. After a month in which Arsenal fans, football fans and Almunia's family assumed a goalkeeper would be bought, Arsene Wenger did not make a deadline day purchase. It is fair to say [.

Ruud van Nistelrooy was never a popular character amongst Arsenal fans but this hatred climaxed at Old Trafford at the start of the 2003/2004 season.

Patrick Vieira was on a yellow card when from the floor, he kicked out at Ruud, and was shown a second yellow and sent off. Ruud made a meal of it and this incensed the Arsenal players and fans.

Young 21 years old Carlos Vela has sent a message to his home country Mexico today, as he converted calmly and with great composure a lovely Cesc Fabregas delivery to make it 4:1 for the Gunners against the Trotters.

The Mexican has received really bad treating by his fellow natives as well as the Mexican press in the last week , especially the latter ones have produced stories which are really far from reality.

I am sure you have all read Adam Kemp's post on real Arsenal fans only coming from North London, well today's Guest Post is from a REAL Gooner that lives in Belgium! Walter Broeckx is a regular poster over on Tony Attwood's Untold Arsenal but this is his first one on Just Arsenal News. He [...]

Harry Redknapp, the Tottenham manager, has already said signing Gallas on a free transfer was an excellent piece of business for Tottenham Hotspur. Arsene Wenger, the Arsenal manager, today conceded that he could understand why Gallas chose to move to Tottenham. Obviously there are logistical issues.

I have a dream. By Paul Blythe (With obvious apologies) Fourteen years ago, a great Frenchman, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the first of his many contracts. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Arsenal Fans who had been seared in the flames of the withering [.

Dissect the West Brom game as much as you want, but it won't make any difference to the result.

I sat through the whole game in the Clock End Upper (love saying that as opposed to the South Stand), right smack behind the goal, so had a wonderful vantage point over the course of the miserable afternoon.

Read between the lines. By Terence McGovern So the annual financial figures are in and all is rosy in the garden. It is notable however that many Arsenal fans are not exactly overcome with enthusiasm about it and so we should ask ourselves, what we want from these figures and really at the end of [..

While Arsenal fans the world over believed that Arsene Wenger was working frantically to get a new goalkeeper for his team, and Mark Schwarzer was just inches away from arriving at the Emirates, it seems that there was no new talks with Fulham on deadline day. There were numerous reports that Arsenal had put in an [.

I was approached by a writer who works for a popular travel comparison site wanting to give Arsenal fans information ahead of their ventures into Europe for the Champions League. I thought it would be a good idea and something quite unique. Your feedback is appreciated and I hope this is of help..

I have a new Guest Post today from Ralph J, who is one of our more positive posters. There has been much wailing and wringing of hands since the transfer window closed without a new goalkeeper arriving at the Emirates, but Ralph thinks it is best we just forget that now and....... Arsenal fans unite!

I have a new Guest Post today from Ralph J, who is one of our more positive posters. There has been much wailing and wringing of hands since the transfer window closed without a new goalkeeper arriving at the Emirates, but Ralph thinks it is best we just forget that now and....... Arsenal fans unite!

Morning, arse fans. Assume the position and prepare yourselves for a stunning array of news stories that might even make you slightly moist with excitement.

Oh, wait, etc.

No, I'm afraid that won't be happening today. The interlull is most definitely upon us, and it means that proper football stories are few and far between.

By Chris Wright

Arsenal defender Thomas Vermaelen has wedged his Flemish size-9s firmly in his stroopwaffel-hole by talking of the love that dare not speak it's name at the Emirates i.e. the immortal bond which exists between captain Cesc Fabregas and his boyhood club Barcelona.

When a whole week and the weekend has passed without any decent football of sorts, any fan (yes, including all the types mentioned in our previous post) is bound to get withdrawal. This 'international break' has been especially suckily timed, considering the season just got underway, most teams are just finding their feet and most fans are just finding their voices.

At last we have some good news for Arsenal fans as three top players that were lacking in fitness managed to come through a full 90 minutes last night. The reserve team had a tricky game lined up against Blackburn and Neil Banfield's side had to come from behind twice to win the game 4-3. Denilson [.

By Czeska Dumali, writing from Ottawa

It was smooth sailing for England as they celebrated a Wayne Rooney goal in the first 10 minutes of their Euro 2012 campaign against Switzerland, which ended with a 3-1 win. However, for Arsenal fans the main focus was on Theo Walcott's injury.

The international break was not one for Arsenal fans. First Theo Walcott was carried off during England's game against Switzerland after injuring his ankle. He was sent to the hospital for x-rays which is not promising. Expect Walcott to miss at least this weekend against Bolton as well as next week's Champions League opener.

When Arsene Wenger revealed that the goalkeeper who started at Anfield on August 15th would be Arsenal's no.1 for the 2010/11 campaign, most Gooners began to worry.

The Gunners chief failed to land Fulham's Mark Schwarzer despite a summer of interest, while Almunia had admitted that the possible imminent arrival of another experienced goalkeeper at Arsenal would be unsettling.

Arsenal returns to action today in the comfort of the Grove and will be looking to continue their unbeaten start to the season. That sounds pretty good except for the fact that this is only the fourth game of a very long league season and being unbeaten thus far is not something much to shout about.

Young 21 years old Carlos Vela has sent a message to his home country Mexico today, as he converted calmly and with great composure a lovely Cesc Fabregas delivery to make it 4:1 for the Gunners against the Trotters.

The Mexican has received really bad treating by his fellow natives as well as the Mexican press in the last week , especially the latter ones have produced stories which are really far from reality.

As another Saturday passes, another round of fixtures nears on completion. However, players are now beginning to feel the effect of having played, potentially, 8 games since the season started a month ago.

Tottenham are the hardest hit so far, I believe, with Gomes, Dawson and Defoe all definite long term absentees with Modric on the brink of joining the list that can also accommodate King and Woodgate.

According to most Arsenal fans and the man himself, Cesc Fabregas' form against Blackburn wasn't the best. A number of reasons have been put forward for this: he has been unsettled by the summer transfer ...

Not a great deal going on today as we wait on word on just how severe Abou Diaby's injury is, but there are a couple of things worth talking about:

First, Cesc has come out and said that the team trusts Almunia. The rudder of the Arsenal says: "He is well-loved player among everybody here and performs well for this club.

I am very surprised we have not heard more on how his scans/x-rays etc have gone.

As I am sure most of you have seen already via all the pics and vids up on other gooner blogs, surrounding the diabolical challenge by the northern monkey from Bolton, it aint pretty.

If the news from AW during the champs league press conference tommorw afternoon is out for 4-6 weeks, it won't surprise me.

It's only Braga in the ECL Matchday 1 tonight, not Real or Barca, but I am just so god damn excited about watching this Arsenal team right now.

Cesc and Tomas are really orchestrating a beautiful symphony that gets played out on the Emirates pitch, with Chamakh leading the line to perfection and bringing others into play with his 100% unselfish play, it's just a pure piece of heaven when we see our beloved team play.

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It was a massive win on Saturday by the Arsenal at Ewood Park and was followed up nicely in the Champions League. We overturned our woeful result of April in the very same ground and won away to a Fat Sam managed team, which we haven't done since 2002, and that includes the Invincibles.

It's nice to see us sitting with 7 points in EPL after two tough away trips, and to say, we haven't even hit top form is something nice to know.

Have you noticed the difference in the team morale this season?

I certainly have, they all celebrate together, no big sulksters mooching around playing for themselves.

No bawling at your left-back and killing his confidence.

Gallas was a liabilty, he might have been a handy defender, but was he not at the heart of the defence that leaked all those goals?

I'm still a bit good

The result against Braga was only the second clean sheet of the season for Arsenal. 5 games have already been played and Manuel Almunia have played every single minute of those games. With all that have been going about the possible transfer of Mark Schwarzer to the club, it could easily have negative impact on Almunia's performance but credit to the Spaniard that he took that as a challenge to up his game instead.

I have spent the summer listening to Arsenal fans saying that Arsene Wenger should be spending some of the massive profits he has made from selling players to improve the Arsenal squad. They intimated that if he spent even half of the profits made, Arsenal would be able to compete with the Chelsea and Man [.

I heard an important point raised on the Arsenal Fan Forum show last Friday night.

Gael Clichy has not got the technical ability to do anything worthwhile with the ball in the final third of the pitch, he is wonderful at getting into the correct areas when we are on the front foot, but due to his inability to reach his own man with the ball.

A truly great weekend of football was witnessed during Gameweek 5 where football fans saw enough goals, controversy, late drama and skill to once again prove the Premier League as the world's most exciting domestic league. Manchester United v Liverpool will steal most of the headlines, yet there was some great football played in matches featuring Tottenham v Wolves, Everton v Newcastle and West Brom v Birmingham City that shouldn't go unnoticed.

The little Russian striker Andrei Arshavin has been musing on the strange game at Sunderland on Saturday, and says that although the Arsenal fans won't be happy with the final result, they should "understand that our victories are ahead". "Today we had, as expected, a difficult match." he said. "Our opponent played well, but I [.

Out of sorts

After only 5 Premier League games, Arsenal are currently sitting in the 2nd spot in the table. That is just 4 points behind leaders Chelsea and a whopping 10 goals behind them already. It puts us level on points with Manchester United with an advantage of 3 goals extra for us. Slightly behind are Manchester City and Sp*rs, who are both 3 points behind us.

Mickey Mouse Cup. Spurs are shit.

It's that time of year again the glorified reserves tournament (for Arsenal, anyway) known as the Carling Cup. I wrote about my feelings on the way the club approaches this competition last year, and since nothing has changed and I'm on nurse duty for MLSGF, who had her wisdom teeth removed this morning, I'll just direct you to what I wrote last year:

Well, the Carling Cup is here.