Why do Arsenal’s players always break down during pre-season?

News coming out of Arsenal camp seems to suggest that we will be missing Thomas Rosicky for the next two to three months due to the injury he suffered in Euro 2012. Although this is no very surprising considering how injury prone the midfielder was, it is still a shame because Rosicky was coming in a rich vein of form towards the back-end of last season. He will sorely be missed during the early stages of the season since we are already missing Jack Wilshere.
Rosicky’s injury continues a trend of Arsenal players going down in the off-season to long term injuries. I really don’t know what is the cause but when other teams are getting players back to strengthen their squad we are besotted with injury problems which carries on throughout the season. For example, in the year before last, we lost Emmanuel Frimpong for the entire season during the E...