Chelsea put through own net by releasing own goal "threat"

There's only one story dominating the sports pages this morning, and that's the news, from a Chelsea press release on their website, that William Gallas allegedly threatened to score own goals, intentional get sent off and make deliverate mistakes if forced to play again for Chelsea.

If you ever needed proof of the lack of class, the lack of respect, and the wholehearted stupidity of this west London football club, here it is. Now this "revelation" may or may not be true. Personally, I don't think it is, and if there's any grain of truth in there at all then it's been ridiculously embellished upon by the Chavski communications department (on that note read this bit from arseblogger, interesting who Chavski's director of communications is).

This, as others have already said, greatly contrasts with Arsene Wenger's approach to the departure of Ashley Cole, which was reserved, gracious, and above all respectful, especially considering everything that Mr Tweedy has put the club through over the last 18 months, events that have actually been proven to be true, unlike Chelski's accusations.

The Chavs statement basically stems from the fan backlash at the departure of their best centre half (I don't care what anyone says, he's better than John Terry, who will suffer this year without him) and their need to justify selling him to one of their top competitors. Considering these threats took place before Chelski's game against Manchester City on August 20th, and that Jose Mourinho was reportedly furious at his departure only last week, it seems hard to believe that the decision to offload him was due to this alleged threat. Too much time passed, and Mourinho would not stand for such behaviour and make such a fuss about him leaving if it were true.

Gallas responded to these claims by saying that the accusations are baseless, and that Chavski lack class. He also went on to say:

"If people want to hide behind these ridiculous accusations to explain why I left to keep onside with their club's supporters, that's what they do. I don't think it'll fool anybody."

He's absolutely right, and well said that man. You are endearing yourself to the Highbury faithful more and more each day.

And that's enough chat about that. Quite frankly they don't deserve so many people taking them seriously. Which I don't.

In proper, actually happened news, Arsenal.con has released a bit more information about our other Brazilian signing Denilson. I'm still worried that this appears to be an identical type of signing as Diaby and Song, and I'm not sure there's room in the team for all of them to breakthrough as they are all a similar age and play the same position (and we all have doubts about Song, who has now officially taken over Cygan's mantle as biggest first team liability). We'll see.