Robin Van Persie Defies Me

How dare he! Yesterday I wrote a short blurb about Van Persie and how much I would be SHOCKED if he actually played at all against Tottenham. I presumed all the rumors were just made up stories to attract attention. Well, I appear to have successfully reverse jinxed us because more and more reports of him being completely match fit are pouring in. Hooray!

And from the mist a figure appears... ROBIN VAN PERSIE.

The original image is Creative Commons licensed with attribution courtesy of Flickr user wonker, who appears to be a season ticket holder with some pretty good seats.

How much of an impact would RvP have made on our season? It is impossible to know, but surely our scoring capacity wouldn’t be so lacking. Perhaps it is not too late for him to have a say in the 2009-10 season. The race is still tight, and if we didn’t have so many injuries our odds wouldn’t look so dismal.

It sounds as though Arsenal’s on-again-off-again man Sol Campbell will get a start as a result of all our injuries. Our injuries are pretty much terrible. Does anyone know of any sort of ‘injury study’ in which all the different teams are compared in terms of their injury histories? Clearly we would have to be challenging for the top spot. It’s a shock that Arsene Wenger hasn’t sustained an injury yet.  I wonder how long he would need to take before he considers himself match fit.

I was going to make a picture of Robin Van Persie as The Terminator saying the infamous words “I’ll be back” but you’re very lucky because I thought better of it. Very lucky.