Podolski is currently about out best player, WIlshire when fit and healthy is better but he's not fit at the moment. As I said, Wenger gets his favourites, everyone else gets screwed, I'd pick Arshavin over Walcott or anyone except Podolski without question and we don't have a better wide player than Podolski(largely because we don't have a single out and out winger at all, he's an excellent striker and very decent wide though). Not started a game since end of Jan, again I'll point out, Blackburn in the cup Podolski not started, but on the bench, and we brought on the goal scoring prolific trio of Rosicky, Gervinho and AOC.... then promptly got dumped out of another cup.
Brentford went 1-0 up against Sheffield Utd which puts them up into second, but red card on 50 minutes, penalty, and Sheffield missed the penalty. Going to be tough to hold on for 40 mins down a man.