The return of the Arsenal favourite we actually wanted back

At last, the spark is back. After an unconvincing display against Everton, the team will be buoyed by the news that Cesc reckons he'll be fit for the Bolton game:

"My hamstring feels 100 per cent now. There is no point rushing it and Bolton away is a reasonable target for me."

Admittedly this sounds a bit familiar, as his most recent comeback from injury was a fairly brief one against Aston Villa. But after turning in a performance of that magnitude, he is desperately missed and I can't wait to see him back in action. We may well see him start the game on the bench again, but I'd imagine that Wenger will want to be completely sure before he risks his captain - and that would hopefully mean he'd be in the starting line-up.

"The snow may have disrupted the football, but it hasn't interrupted my rehab. I was running in the snow with physio David Wales and I wish someone was there to take a photo."

Aw. Admittedly, it wouldn't quite top that real-life 'Day After Tomorrow' photo of the UK, or the bizarre sight of a wintry Brighton Pavilion. But seeing Cesc's cheeky little grin as he hobbled about in the snow would be a real relief to Arsenal fans, indeed almost as much of a relief as a certain scheming Catalan might get from his perch in the treetops, watching Cesc change out of his muddy training kit with one hand pressing the binoculars into his lecherous eyes and the other...

Only kidding, Barca fans. Anyway, there's more.

"Everything was white, it was an unbelievable scene, just two of us in the middle of four pitches."

I can only imagine Robin van Persie's fury upon seeing the physio spending such quality time with another player. Confined to the injury ward, he would roll out of his bed and crawl along the floor, and with his eyes filled with envy and a venom last seen before that lunge on Graeme Le Saux, he would prop himself up against the window to see Wales and Fabregas running side-by-side in the snow. When the nurses rushed towards him, pleading for him to get back into bed and rest, he would scream at them to stand back, and ram his crutches into the eyes of any who dared intervene. Yet when the physio returned, he would simply clamber back into bed and employ the silent treatment whilst his injury was tended to, until he saw just how much Wales cared about his leg and eventually forgave him.

Back to Cesc, who added, "It was a nice experience, but also hard work, so hopefully it'll pay off."

Well, he's got five days, and the signs are good. We should be able to put out a fairly strong team against Bolton, provided nothing else happens in the meantime (which, I suppose, is quite likely), and a good result up there would give us the opportunity to rest a couple of players in the home game against the same opponents, which has now been rearranged for Wednesday 20th.

We'll definitely need to rotate a bit soon, as we now have five matches in the next fourteen days.

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