Tomáš Rosický
With the start of the season quickly creeping up on the calendar and the transfer window being open
until the end of August, Arsenal, like most other Premier League teams, aren't sure who will be in
the line-up on opening day and who might not be with the club anymore.
One thing looks certain though, and that's that Gunners midfielders Tomas Rosicky and Jack
Wilshere won't be ready to play when the season kicks off.
If Aaron Ramsey wasn't entirely sure whether he was out of form, he knew now. Because it had
quite literally, snuck up behind him. Fernando Torres, desperately out of form himself and hoping
he would be rewarded through hard-work, dispossessed Ramsey on at least two occasions and the
Emirates crowd quickly grew restless at his lack of urgency early on in the goalless draw with
Chelsea.
Brazilian-born marksman Eduardo is on-course for a 2008 comeback after suffering a horrific injury
at the hands of Birmingham defender Martin Taylor in that ill-fated fixture at St. Andrew's on the
25th of February this year. The tackle was mis-timed rather than malicious, but Dudu was left with
The a broken left fibula and an [.
This weekend could see the debut of Mikael Silvestre who has finally overcome a muscle injury. The
former Manchester United defender is likely to be benched for the clash against newly-promoted
Hull, although he may start ahead of either Kolo Toure or William Gallas if Arsene chooses to rest
one of his first-choice defensive pairing.
This weekend could see the debut of Mikael Silvestre who has finally overcome a muscle injury. The
former Manchester United defender is likely to be benched for the clash against newly-promoted
Hull, although he may start ahead of either Kolo Toure or William Gallas if Arsene chooses to rest
one of his first-choice defensive pairing.
A whole lot of things to cover today as a number of players (and a pair of utter cunts) have been
talking. Sorry about the lack of coverage again, it's been a massive week. I don't think I will be
updating as often as usual for the next couple of weeks - I'm flat out. [...]
Ten members of the Arsenal first-team have been called up and will be flying out to Ukraine and
Poland to represent their respective countries in this summer's European Championships. Euro 2012
kicks off in just under two weeks time when Greece take on co-hosts Poland in Warsaw on June
8th.
San Marino vs. Czech Republic, 1315 EST
Olimpico - Serravalle
San Marino has a grand total of zero points and a goal difference of -36 in the group. In other
words, it's 'pad the stats' time for Jan Koller, Milan Baroš, Tomáš Rosický, and Stanislav
Vlček. I'm surprised Pavel Nedvěd didn't come out of retirement for this one. With Petr Čech or
even Martin Vaniak in goal and Marek Jankulovski, Tomáš Ujfaluši, and David Rozehnal among
others in front of one of them, San Marino has absolutely no chance of scoring here.
