News Roundup: Nasri, Diaby, Silvestre Still Out

So today three of our Arsenal players faced fitness exams and none of them passed. According to Arsenal.com all of Nasri, Diaby, and Silvestre are all still out. Silvestre and Nasri should be fit for the game against Hull next Saturday, but Diaby will be another two weeks. I don't know what it is about the club that means anyone who comes here gets injured, but it may have something to do with our fast, physically-demanding style of play. On the bright side, at least Van Persie isn't out for a month for "fracturing a fingernail during a particularly intense recreational activity": table tennis.

Also on Arsenal.com, Adebayor says that the team is benefiting from Gallas's experience and his goals are helping as well. The goals certainly are helping, but you notice that Adebayor didn't say anything about Gallas's leadership, just his experience...

Finally, Le Boss has revealed why he spoke to the ref after the game Wednesday. It was for precisely the reason I suspected. Here's what he said:

"I wanted to understand how we were going to play three minutes of injury time, and then only had one minute,

“Every referee looks to have a different computer to calculate the injury time. I still do not know and really understand how it works.

"It looks like [it happens] through inspiration of the referee and he could not explain it. He just said it was enough.

"When we got to 1-1, there was no game any more. We were on top, they looked very tired, but the game was finished because of the interruptions for injuries and stoppages. You could feel the game was there for the taking, but we had no more opportunity to play."

I also felt all the timewasting was unfair, and I was quite sure the referee would allow the game to go on for four or five minutes because of the stoppages for subs and injuries. But because of another biased referee (who also, remember, awarded that 50-50 penalty that was not) we didn't have the chance to press for a winner. This isn't the Premier League so I can't say the ref was a Man Utd supporter, but he certainly was unfair.

I'll write a match preview tomorrow but that's all the time I have for today. Until next time,

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