Who’s scored an own goal with sulk Gallas?

Published: 26 August, 2010
THE CROW

ARSENAL
HARRY Redknapp boasts he’s got “one over on Arsenal” by signing William Gallas as if this latest odd behaviour from the champion sulk could somehow match Sol Campbell’s stroll across the divide.

Let’s face it, the fact is Gooners couldn’t care less and Spurs fans feel a little wobbly about the idea.

It’s not as if Cesc Fabregas is pulling on that ugly new Spurs shirt which, by the way, looks like something Port Vale should be wearing.

The Sol defection will never be matched.

Here was the best Tottenham player in a generation basically saying: You know what? Tottenham are crummy, aren’t they? I’m off down the road.
It was the perfect public underscoring of one of football’s little food chains. Arsenal good. Spurs bad.

I will never forget – and neither will you, Spurs fans, never – the day Sol walked across the playing fields with Arsene Wenger. It was like Charlie getting the keys to the Chocolate Factory.

He won the double with Arsenal, compared with a Worth-nothing Cup at Spurs.

Sol may have headed to Newcastle but his conversion from white to red will make him a legend.

His story is a modern parable about Man seeing the error of his ways and changing history for the better.

It’s more inspirational than the Bible. Gallas is a rambling Dan Brown novel in comparison.
RICHARD OSLEY

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TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR
IT’S a defection of Cold War proportions: the escape from the Reds in the east, with the individual scarpering up the Seven Sisters Road to freedom.

We’d heard the rumours, but thought that it was  just football writers’ summer fluff.

Then reality struck! William Gallas has signed for Tottenham!

I made frantic phone calls having flashbacks of a sit-down protest on a Birmingham pitch.

I thought “sacre bleu! Is Harry mad?” Gallas, who allegedly said he’d score own goals if Chelsea didn’t release him.

Gallas, who threw his toys out of the pram when the Gooners lost to Birmingham.

Gallas, who has incurred the wrath over many a season from the Park Lane end for wearing his heart on his sleeve in our London rivals’ colours.

However, we’re talking about one of the shrewdest managers in the league and, although the most Spurs fans will find it hard to stomach, the hard truth is we need a defender and if he’s brave enough to take the abuse.

This will haunt Gooners, especially as we got him for free. So let’s rejoice in the fact that those Arsenal fans who bought the No 10 shirt with his name can no longer wear it! And if Gallas chaperones our defence on away-days in Europe or helps us stay in the top four, it will have all been worth it.
TONY DALLAS