Arsenal fans have a reason to be happy! What they read below may well make up for the thumping at Old Trafford and keep them optimistic of the very real prospect of a Premier League and Champions League double!

Are you ready ... Cesc Fabregas wants to stay with Arsenal for life (CNN). Fabregas, clearly one of the best players on the planet, said: "I am very happy – everything is going well. I have got friends in the club, I like the life and I am comfortable with the fans.

“If they don't want me here, then of course I would like to go back to Spain. But if the club wants me and the boss thinks I still can give a lot to the club, then I will stay here. I will be here for as long as they want me."

‘... if the club wants me and the boss thinks I still can give a lot to the club, then I will stay here. I will be here for as long as they want.’


So if Gunners fans want they can cut and paste those words from the midfield maestro, frame them and hang them on the wall, or better still fax them to Barcelona and Real Madrid, and thus, hopefully, end their incessant attempts to unsettle the 20-year-old.