Gallas out, Arsenal rocked (apparently)

News from Arsenal that William Gallas is out of the Hamburg game and "for a few weeks" according to the BBC. However they have given the story a rather bizarre title, "Gallas thigh injury rocks Arsenal"...

What's that supposed to mean, while Gallas has been great so far at the club I'm certainly not worried that he will be out, in fact in an odd way I'm rather pleased. Senderos was at the heart of an Arsenal defence that holds the record for clean sheets in the Champions league and when he has been used Djourou has been very impressive. If anything I think we have missed Senderos a little because we lack a bit of height defending set pieces when Gallas plays. Sure it's not ideal but the use of the term "rocked" is total rubbish once again from the press, I checked and the official word used by Wenger was in fact "blow" so not sure why the BBC felt compelled to change it to something more dramatic.

Still the good news is both RVP and Gilberto are back in the squad. Van Persie's injury wasn't at all serious despite him missing the second half against Newcastle and Gilberto is now back from Brazil. Strangely the BBC seem to totally ignore those two bit's of information still I suppose it doesn't fit in with their "Arsenal Rocked" theme.