Gallas: Reportedly stripped of Gunners armband
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Outcast Gallas left out by Arsenal
William Gallas has arrived at Arsenal's training ground while the rest of his team-mates prepare for Saturday's clash at Manchester City.
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A miserable week for the Frenchman has seemingly seen him stripped of the club's captaincy and now left out of Arsenal's squad for the trip to Eastlands.
Gallas has hit the headlines this week after speaking openly on Thursday of unrest in Arsenal's camp, while revealing details of a bust-up inside the dressing room at half-time in the recent draw with Tottenham.
Arsenal have yet to make an official comment on Gallas' outburst, or whether a subsequent punishment had been issued, but is widely understand the player has played his last game as skipper.
A number of the club's former players have been quick to condemn Gallas' breaking of the sanctuary of the dressing room and, his comments have not sat well with his team-mates either.
It has been suggested Gallas offered up the captaincy at a team-meeting on Friday, although details of any such discussions are for the moment subject to conjecture.
Manuel Almunia is expected to lead Arsenal on Saturday, with Gael Clichy thought to be the other leading candidate to take the captain's armband.
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Mamajyot (Liverpool fan)
"You dumb idiots leave out your best defender for speaking the truth ???? No wonder City of all teams whooped you solid!!!"
Delboyzola (Chelsea fan)
"Now even nuetrals have to admit Chelsea got the better bargain ! getting rid of Gallas and getting Ashley Cole !"
spaniard3 (Arsenal fan)
"silvestre! hes only been here 5 mins! id give it to clichy every time then fabregas ultimately! gallas should not even ever get in our team again he is a joke and not that fantstic a defender give me kolo and silvestre every time!"
Anthony_Leow (Liverpool fan)
"haha... perhaps wenger should come up to be the captain... LoLx..."
YNWAanfield (Liverpool fan)
"Fabregas is not available for this game."
5ECs_and_18Ls (Liverpool fan)
"Almunia as Captain!!!!! Ha! What a joke!
Shouldnt even be in the team let alone captain. Surely Fabregas or Silvestre would be a better choice??"
scouse_chrisj (Liverpool fan)
"At least Wenger has shown he has "some" balls... still not enough to actually come out and criticise the awful behaviour of his pathetic captain!"
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