The fog

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Date	Time	C	Opponent	F	A	R	S
04 Apr	3:00 PM	P	Manchester City (H)	2	0	Win

A sunny afternoon in North London. People going about their daily business, out on the street, sitting in an office. Me? I'm sitting here, sitting here thinking, "My brother's getting married tomorrow and so I don't get to witness what should be the consummation of something beautiful".

Yep, it's true. Francesc Fabregas returns to first team action tomorrow afternoon, and so will hopefully begin a beautiful friendship with Andrey Arshavin. Andrey being the man who has done much to lift the fog that was enveloping the club as Fabregas sat out the winter months. It's amazing to think that, when Cesc got injured and the team stuttered from draw to draw, we were sure Arsène needed to buy not one but two central midfielders to cover for the huge, Cesc-sized gap in midfield.

Of course, he didn't do that, he went and spent money on a pint-sized Russian with it all to prove in the major leagues of world football. And once that Russian was settled in (can you be settled at a hotel?), he began to light our stadium with such brilliance that the fog dissipated as if it had never existed.

By the way, Joan Laporta and FC Barcelona ... "will you please, please, please just fucking fuck off?!"

Anyway, tomorrow should be quite exciting, it would be more exciting for me if I wasn't going to be stuck in a hotel in Leatherhead but there you go. Manchester City may be the last team to have beaten us, but they have won one game away from home all season - can this be anything other than another victory for Arsène's Spring Kings?

Okay, so Eduardo's groin means that he joins RvP and Diaby on the sidelines, but Nick Bendtner has texted in to say he's okay to play, whilst Theo and Ade - who I'm sure will be dying to show us all what we've been missing - return to the squad. Samir Nasri is apparently a doubt with a virus picked up on international duty and I have to say if it's anything like the one I had, he should be kept isolated. In a tent. Far away from civilisation.

Harsh, maybe, but he can return to humanity when he's recovered, it's a nasty little bug going around. Carlos Vela is available if needed. To be honest, it sounds like it might be a good idea to have him on the bench, just in case, even if the manager counts "him out".

An old friend made his MLS debut for the Seattle Sounders last week. Arsène says, "Freddie is Hollywood". Perhaps our cultural references our different, well I'm sure they are, but I always think of Hollywood as the partner of "Wolfman" in that 80s classic Top Gun.

Anyway, he came on, as a 61st minute sub, in central midfield and the game was won 2-0. I couldn't cope watching Freddie running into dead ends, falling over and asking for free kicks in his last couple of years at Arsenal, but I wish him luck in this venture.

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