Clichy out for several weeks

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/8340393.stm

How big a blow is this to Arsenal?

MrMagoo wrote:http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/8340393.stm

How big a blow is this to Arsenal?

Well, we've got England's next left-back - Kieran Gibbs - waiting to spring into action so, whilst I like Clichy a lot his replacement is going to do no harm whatsoever.

Gibbs is more than capable and we also have Traore too. So we are well covered in Clichy's absence.

jak wrote:Gibbs is more than capable and we also have Traore too. So we are well covered in Clichy's absence.

We've had some tasty left-backs over the years - Bill McCullough, Peter Storey started off there, if I remember well, Bob McNab, Sammy Nelson, Kenny Samson, Nigel Winterburn, Sylvinho (for 10 minutes 'til we found out he had an iffy passport, which let in..) Ashley Cole (who was great until he became a star) and now Clichy, Gibbs, Traore - they've all been good'uns!

I remember Billy McCullough, literally, picking up Stanley Matthews as he went past him for the umpteenth time. I think Stanley was about 47 at the time and he made Billy look a mug.
Yes we've had some great left backs. I really liked Winterburn because when he came to us he got stuck in, in every match and became Arsenal through and through. A fantastic full back who gave his all and did not get the international credit he deserved. In any other country that back four would have been the automatic choice for the national side. What more could you want at internaional level than to be able to select a terrific back line that played together week in week out. Not in England though. Crazy.