Sports Thread #1 for 12/23/08: Arsenal Season Devastated With Fabregas Lost

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Brutal for Arsene Weneger and Arsenal, as their captain will be out until maybe April:

Arsenal's last hopes of hauling itself back into contention for the Premier League title seemed to disappear Tuesday when captain Cesc Fabregas was ruled out for as long as four months because of medial ligament damage to his right knee.

"We will miss him, of course, but how much is difficult to say,'' Wenger said. "We have to find a way and we want to find a way to compensate the fact that he is not on the pitch to give everyone a bit more.''

This club has been ravished by many injuries:

Tomas Rosicky has not played for a year because of a hamstring injury, Theo Walcott is out with a dislocated shoulder, and Eduardo da Silva has only just returned to the reserve team after 10 months out with a broken ankle.

I forgot about Rosicky, that's how long he has been out. And only the future can tell us whether Eduardo can come back or not. Nevertheless, the latest, and probably most devastating, blow indeed to the Gunners and their hopes of any trophies this year.