Quote Originally Posted by french_og
Thats bollox about Upson, he was never given a chance and to have the like of Cygan, Lauren playing ahead of him just shows that the manager doesn´t care about giving the english a chance.
No it's not, he was given a run in the team! And it was his decision to go, he was never ahead of the likes of Sol Campbell. And Lauren has been turned into a right back, Upson could maybe play left back at a push... And the point I was making about Upson is you have to be able to take your chances at a big club like Arsenal - or have the patience to bide your time at the very least.

He was blighted by injuries of course, but I'm not too bothered about Upson, much as I'd like to see more English players in the team it's on the proviso that they're there on merit, not just cos they're english.