Ye Olde Arsenal

Afternoon all,

We'd start first and foremost with the team news today. According to le boss:

"The good news from last night is that nobody has come back with any knock or severe injury, we have no injuries from last night and we have no-one coming back as well, so the group will be stable."

This comes as a surprise after seeing the Ukranians trying their best to completely annihilate Theo Walcott. I suspect he's going to kicked about even more at Bolton, but the prospect has not daunted our young superstar, he says:

"It’s a nice feeling when a defender is scared of you straight away. I got kicked a few times in Kiev but I got up and got on with it. I just love playing for this club and for my country."

This is exactly what you want to hear from a player like Theo and how he's ready to step up to the challenge, especially since after scoring that hat-trick, his profile has risen tremendously and it now seems that most defenders have taken the "kicking him to stop him" route.

In other news, it seems that our injured French trio of Nasri, Silvestre & Diaby (remember him?) will not be playing tommorow either. Why am I not surprised? What I would really like to know is why the boss brings in players solely to keep our physio's hands full?

Onto Bolton team news now, Johan Elmander is hoping to feature tommorow after recovering from a hamstring injury, Matt Taylor remains on the sidelines with a broken toe but may get the go ahead following some consultation & Gary Cahill is also missing as he completes his two-match suspension. The rest of the squad is as we remember it. Still a bunch of *****. The game is going to extremely tough (it never is otherwise) and following a long week of travelling about, I really hope the fatigue element doesn't finally catch up with us.

Right moving on, Fergie's been talking about Theo Walcott and has some nice things to say as well. He talks about how important it is that the young lad keeps his head down and works on his football and not on his image. He said:

"It's the first time we have a young Englishman who, having scored a hat-trick against Croatia, will be faced with the same issues we faced with Ryan. Everyone will want a piece of him, agents will fall over themselves to get to the boy."

He also acknowledged the fact that Arsenal was the BE place to be for the young superstar.

"What he requires is one strong manager and Arsenal will give him that, without question. The boy must also have the understanding that what is being done for him is for his own good."

Shocking to hear him say anything nice about Arsenal, isn't it? Whats even more shocking is that Le boss & Alex Ferguson seem to have been singing:

"Strawberries cherries and an angel's kiss in spring My summer wine is really made from all these things Take off your silver spurs and help me pass the time And I will give to you summer wine Ohhh-oh summer wine"

No seriously, they really have been. Go have a look.

In other news, Stan Kroenke has joined our board and this is a move to further distance that fat **** Alisher Usmanov from Arsenal Good stuff!

And finally, our financial results have been announced to solidify our financial well being. Right then, lets have those 30 million signings then.

Right then, I had best leave, the game is at 17:30 GMT tommorow and here's hoping to all 3 points and a billion and one goals.

Come on you Gunneerrrssssssss!!!!