Why bother debating the ACTUAL numbers...

When we can just spout rubbish and insult each other.

Appearances out of a possible 32 games;

Arsenal
Wilshere - 23 (currently injured)
Ramsey - 18 (possibly back from injury tomorrow)
Ox - 10
Ozil - 22 (out of a possible 29, currently injured)
Cazorla - 24
Walcott - 13 (currently injured)

(I will use Liverpool as a comparison as they are allegedly the best team in the land at the moment)

Liverpool
Gerrard - 24
Henderson - 32
Coutinho - 27
Sterling - 23 (benched NOT injured)
Sturridge - ONLY 24
Suarez - 27 (banned NOT injured)

The reason I don't include defensive players is because different systems can be implemented to mitigate the impact of defensive injuries BUT if your main goal threats are injured there is NOTHING you can do to cope
This is unless you have £400m to spend on a complete squad like City/Bayern/Real - which is a business plan that is risky and unsustainable unless you have massive commercial revenues.

As far as I know these figures are correct and they demonstrate why one team is fighting for 1st and the other is fighting for 4th.

In my opinion, losing Walcott, Ramsey and Ox has killed us. When you lose your pace, you lose a whole dimension to your attacking play and Arsenal don't have the CF who can "do it on his own".

These numbers just show that our club has to make some radical changes because you CANNOT challenge for the title with this many key injuries every season.

I ammended my previous, admittedly p'sspoor attempt of an article to be a little more balanced and explanatory.

My last article until May 11th when everything is sorted and the clubs with the trophies can speak for themselves.

This site has it's fair share of decent fans who genuinely want to discuss football but those are few and far between. Most people will resort to attacking a person when they realise that they cannot refute an argument that they simply do not like to admit is true.

If anyone saw Nick Clegg on Wednesday, that is what a lot of people on this site are like.

Au revoir.