Roll Up For The Turkey Shoot!

A quarter of the season gone and we are on 6 points. Keep this up for the whole season and we will end on 24. We need to add at least another 16 to stay up this year. It aint looking promising when you strip it down to the bare stats is it?

And talking stats, we go in to today's game having leaked 19 goals, and Arsenal having scored 21. That suggests Arsenal are going to bang in at least two and if spread betters were offering 3, you would mad to go anything other than high. Nasri and Walcott are scoring goals from midfield for fun, Fabregas is back and Chamakh looks OK. Bendtner also looked pretty impressive against Newcastle. Then there's Arseshavings to worry about too should he come on.

Still, we may have Upson back!

Is there any cause for optimism? Arsenal may swagger too early I suppose and forget they have to win the game first. But apart from that?

What do you do for this one if you are Grant? Pack the team with defenders and park the coach, hoping for a Green wonder show and a Zamora style wonder goal? Or seek to exploit the weakness at the heart of the Arsenal defence, accept that you will concede anyway, and look to score goals with fast counter attacking football. It is Option B for me!

Depending on fitness, my team would read:

Green: Jacobsen, Da Costa, Upson, Ben Haim; Dyer, Parker, Noble, Barerra; Obinna, Cole

If Piquionne is fit then I would play him ahead of Cole. If Dyer is out then bring in Behrami.

Who knows? It was a hell of a shock when Pardew's and Curbishley's teams won away at Arsenal, so miracles do happen in football!