Just when you thought it was safe to say 'The Arsenal are at full strength' another player goes an gets injured, this time it's in the form of goal king Thierry 'The King' Henry. Young Terence has been ruled out of the FA Cup semi with Blackburn Rovers due to a groin strain (well have you seen his missus?). But on a serious note Saint Wenger has also said that the injury got be a serious one, serious enough to keep the goal machine out of the 'must win' top of the table clash with the lottery winning chavs of Sarf West London on Wednesday night. Also ruled out is Sol 'The Rock' Campbell who still isn't considered fully match fit, which makes the story below a bit redundant, but what can you do? Saint Wenger said of these two set backs "It is a big blow. We wanted Thierry with us but on the other hand we have to focus on the strengths we have and make sure we have enough to go through. Campbell practises and is close to full, full competitive fitness, but he is not involved."

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So just who's going to get the nod?

That is the question. Who will it be? The Rock or the new Tony Adams? We are of course referring to Sol Campbell and Philippe Senderos for the high noon FA Cup clash against the northern monkeys Blackburn Rovers. Saint Wenger has confirmed Sol 'The Rock' Campbell is not 100% fit but is raring to go. The big man has had a couple of 90 minute run outs for the reserves in the last week and hasn't suffered any setbacks to his ankle injury. However with Senderos in fine form and getting the nod ahead of Pascal 'Le Gr&e Oak' Cygan in the pecking order (which is nice) he could be odds on to start.

When asked who would start the game the manager just said “I have not decided yet.” Fair enough. But with Touré and Senderos looking more solid than a German made land vehicle, it would be hard for the Saint to not pair these two up for this important make or break our season fixture, no pressure.

On the injury list for this game though is Mathieu Flamini, Manuel Almunia and Gael Clichy who is out for the season with a broken bone in his foot. Surprisingly injury prone and Valencia bound Edu isn't injured for once and will probably figure somewhere on the bench. Also returning from injury is Camp Freddie and José 'Fonzarelli' Reyes, which is nice, so a 'near' full strength team - who would of thought it? The northern monkeys will no doubt adopt a 'put the bus in front of the goal' approach, so will need DB10 to be at his mercurial best to unlock their defence and Camp Freddie, Henry and co to pick their pockets.

Item still available in the Chelski shop

One of our roving reporters has been at it again, sniping around the oppositions catalogues and shops just to see what type of merchand ise can be bought. One of the chief finds was this cheeky little item. It's not known whether this item will be readily available in the Gunners Shop unfortunately.

Now Cole joins in

Along with Camp Freddie and Thierry Henry now Ashley "The best left back in the world™" Cole has joined in the 'We can still win the league' stakes. Cole has warned the lottery winning chavs of Sarf West London that The Arsenal have not given up on their championship crown and will a fight. Young Ash added "If they are going to win it then fair enough and good luck to them, but they haven't won it yet and we don't want them winning it by beating us on the way. We still want to win the league ourselves. Chelski have to win their games and we are not going to give up".

and now Camp Freddie wants in as well

With The Arsenal being out the Uefa Champions League after another poor showing, Bob Hope chance of winning the league, and basically only one shot of winning any silverware this term and everybody leaving a sinking ship(?) Camp Freddie has joined the likes of Bobby Pires and Thierry Henry by stating he's happy at the club. He's so happy in fact that he's negotiating a new deal and says everything is going to plan. Camp Freddie exclusively told us "I want to stay. I've been in London for such a long time. I've always said that if the club want to develop like I want to as well, then I want to sign and want to stay."*

*ok he might not of told us exclusively - but you get the picture

The Arsenal President has pop at Ol' 80% Proof Nose

The Arsenal chairman Sir Peter Hill-Wood-Wood has joined a very long queue and said that Manure dictator and all round sour faced, whiskey smelling whingeing jock Ol' 80% Proof Nose is talking 'Absolute rubbish'. Sir Hill-Wood-wood came out fighting when the mad despot dictator claimed "I think they wanted it at Cardiff last season instead of Villa Park. We are looking forward to the semi-final but it's a terrible burden on the fans with it being at Cardiff, particularly the Newcastle fans."

The chairman puffed on a big phat Cuban cigar and said "That is absolute rubbish. To be honest, I would rather go to Villa Park to play the game. It seems to have been an ill-informed remark that started this debate. In no way has the subject of semi-final venues been discussed by the board at Arsenal.

It seems that the mad despot is trying to use that old bit of 'mind games' which he so 'famously' tries to psyche out opponents, either that or he's trying to deflect attention from his misfiring bunch of cheating northern scum. He is also upset of the prospect that Manure's hardcore local fans face a 500mile round trip from southern Kent to watch them play the Geordie boys.

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VFB Stuttgart have insisted that they will try to keep talented midfielder 23 year old (possible) Arsenal target Alexand er Hleb at the Gottlieb-Daimler Stadium... Birmingham have 'allegedly' agreed a deal with The Arsenal for lamp post smashing lag Jermaine Pennant. The filthy lucre is believed to be in the region of £600,000 rising to £3 million. The 22-year-old only has agree personal terms for the move to be finalised, it is not known whether a car will be part of that sweetener. Pennant is also moaning about the amount of times he appeared for The Arsenal since his arrival in 1999 but frankly we can't be arsed to report it, it's a bit of a shame but you had your chance jog on boy and take your tag with you... ...Keep it locked, more news at 11.