In 2010 Abou Diaby was offered a new contract and you may want to know why this is after such a dreadful spell out through injuries. Well Abou Diaby had played 43 games that year (including French team matches) and alongside Alex Song, just behind Cesc Fabregas we looked bloody strong. I remember sitting in at the Emirates watching us tear apart Porto 5-0 thinking that our midfield looked world class, Diaby was a big part of that. After sticking by Diaby, he had repaid the manager with many strong performances and his ‘best’ years ahead of him. Would you have not offered Robin van Persie a new contract at the end of last season because he had a terrible previous history? Didn’t

We found out yesterday that Abou Diaby would miss 9 months due to an injury sustained on the training ground. He had ruptured his knee and has to once again go through a long and lonely journey fighting for his footballing career.

I have read the phrase ‘unlucky’ so many times since the news first broke but this is not bad luck. This isn’t a freak of nature, this is largely down to a little jumped up nobody called Dan Smith who decided that a skillful young Frenchman playing for a team who were 3-0 up with minutes to go didn’t like it up him and broke his ankle.

When Arsenal recently opened their new high tech medical center, a member of the Arsenal staff said that Abou Diaby’s injuries are all a by-product of that horrific assault. I find it quite frustrating that Danny boy is walking around getting on with his life scot-free.

Abou Diaby was only 19 years of age when that happened he had not yet developed his game, hadn’t had the chance to iron out his flaws or improve on his strengths. Since then different parts of his lower body have failed him as his body as tried to over compensate for his restructured ankle.

The finger has been pointed at him for lacking the consistency to become a top player. No sheeet Sherlock. It is not difficult to understand that a player who is continuously recovering from injury to then have to find match fitness and sharpness before repeating the process over and over again would suffer from lacking consistency.

I have tried to stress this point about players recovering from one medium to long term injury let alone from the age of 19 until now.

In 2010 Abou Diaby was offered a new contract and you may want to know why this is after such a dreadful spell out through injury. Well Abou Diaby had played 43 games that year (including French team matches) and alongside Alex Song, just behind Cesc Fabregas we looked bloody strong. I remember sitting at the Emirates watching us tear apart Porto 5-0 thinking that our midfield looked world class, Diaby was a big part of that.

After sticking by Diaby, he had repaid the manager with many strong performances and his ‘best’ years ahead of him. Would you have not offered Robin van Persie a new contract at the end of last season because he had a terrible previous history? Didn’t think so.

During this pre season Abou Diaby had stayed fit and he had played very well, his good fitness ran into the start of the season and we witnessed possibly his best performance in an Arsenal shirt at Anfield. Do you think he would have produced that quality if he had just walked back into the team from the treatment table? I don’t think so.

I could be wrong but I see no reason why that Anfield display couldn’t have been the norm if that break did not occur. The pattern of Diaby having a run of games and then producing consistency was evident even during his younger days when he was still dealing with the inconsistency of youth that 99% of young players have to go through. Some will disagree with me and have done so in the past, fine but I stick by that.

I was genuinely sad when I heard the news last night but that sadness turned quickly to anger when I read some of the comments from Arsenal fans. The insults hurled his way for having to deal with his career running down the drain due to no fault of his own actually sickens me. Yes, I am climbing on my moral soap box but I couldn’t give a f*ck to be honest.

Abou Diaby joined Arsenal as a teenager, he has had nothing but positive things to say about the club publicly. He is a humble, religious man who doesn’t slam cars into lampposts or sell Dench T-shirts and fricking snapbacks. He sustained an injury that has hampered his career playing in our shirt yet idiots think it is ok or funny to say he needs to be shot or stupid things of that nature. Seriously have a look at yourselves.

I appreciate that this is the internet and many of these people could be kids and if this is the case then I blame the parents. A browser block should have been in place, only allowing those people to visit the CBeebies website.

It is obvious that we need another midfield player and I believe we would have done so even if Diaby had remained fit for the most part. Arsene said that he would replace Song and that was when Diaby was fit, I guessed at the time that we were not able to get our targets, one of them seemed to be Sahin.

We are all fully entitled to support whatever club in whatever way we wish and the club is always more important than individuals, whether that be manager, boardroom staff or players but I am kind of uncomfortable with the cynical approach to our club from so many.

Players are now just a number, no character, no personality behind them. Just objects that we can unload abuse onto whether that be online or at the stadium. Read 7am kick off’s Diaby piece for evidence It doesn’t matter how much said player has given to the club or what has happened to him whilst at the club.

Look at the vitriol leveled at Sagna after certain games for more evidence. All we want is a player to give everything on the pitch and we can accept their flaws they said, well isn’t that what Ramsey has always done since he signed for us, has that stopped over the top negativity towards him?

I find it all rather uncomfortable to be honest yet I am not foolish to understand that frustration gets the better of people when the pressure of a match is in full flow.

I was at the under 19s victory on Monday and two teenagers were shouting abuse at our players for not shooting or misplacing a pass. I turned around and gave them an icy stare not only for abusing our players but unnecessarily using foul language around many young children in that area.

I am going off track here but to sum it all up, I feel sorry for Abou Diaby. It is difficult to find a talented and skilful player like Abou who wouldn’t enjoy playing football. So I am sure he isn’t just shrugging his shoulders and hobbling off to the airport with his beach hat on donning a cheeky grin.

The guy took time out of his holiday to do extra strengthening exercises for gods sake. Not only do I feel sorry for Diaby, I feel sorry for myself and many other Gooners who enjoy watching Abou Diaby. We have missed out on watching a top class midfielder dominating games on a weekly basis.

I hope that Diaby turns it around and finds the answer to his fitness issues. Whatever happens to him in future, I wish him the very best.