Wenger gets into fight with tramp; Walcott's appendege 'pops out'

France
The feud between Domenech and Wenger continued last night as Domenech -who looked like he had slept on the streets the night before- lashed out at the Arsenal boss.

"Wenger is saying that a match in August can explain an injury in March," said Domenech. "But it has to be known that every time Henry has played for France, he was playing for Arsenal three days later."



"We have a clear conscience because we have never made our players take risks," Domenech said.

"I'm seriously starting to get tired of Mr Wenger.

"Wenger does not know everything and is not the only one with the right to exist in football.

"Even Uefa president Michel Platini has noted that his remarks were stupid."

BBC point out an interesting statistic, however: Domenech has used Henry in seven international matches this season - including three friendlies - and played him for 90 minutes in all but one of the games.

That's very interesting if you consider how much of the season Henry has missed for Arsenal.

On a side note, Eurosport says that Henry will resume training in June. Is it just me, or is that really early? Methinks Mr Wenger has some cunning plan to get Henry back to his very best.

Meanwhile, the feud hasn't stopped Domenech recruiting Arsenal players as Diaby has been called into the French squad for the Euro 2008 qualifier against Lithuania and a friendly against Austria later this month.

Rumours that Raymond Domenech has requested that the games be extended to a length of 1500 minutes each -so he can get a good look at Diaby- have proven unfounded.

Youth Team

I had a look at the highlights from the other night of the FA Youth Cup game and I must say that Fran Merida looks rather tasty. (In a footballing sense, of course!) Kieran Gibbs scored a cracker but, from the brief highlights I saw, the night belonged to the young Spaniard.

He played some exceptional, visionary passes which were very reminiscent of Glenn Hoddle. Let's hope the lad's development continues.

Theo Walcott
One man who was eligible to play in the youth cup game was Theo Walcott. Instead he's getting a new cybernetic shoulder - or something like that:

"It is my left shoulder, and I have had the problem since I joined, it was from my Southampton days.

"Basically there are loose parts floating about in there, and so it needs to be 'locked' back together."

He added: "I have been playing with it and it has been fine, but it has been getting worse the last couple of months.

"I think the best thing for me in the long run is to have the operation, but it has been postponed while we have these injuries in the squad.

Of the youngster, Wenger said:"He was very, very promising before his shoulder injury.

"Sometimes it pops out now in training. Now, he wants to get it done.

"I feel he will be a great player, and you have seen glimpses of him - but first he needs to get his shoulder right."

I can only hope that Wenger is referring to Walcott's shoulder popping out..

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