More Chelsea v Gallas

The William Gallas story continues to rumble on. Even the newspapers that were quick to label Billy as a disgraceful money grabbing cheat are now shooting derisory glances at Chelsea and the web of lies that is their communications department. There are large proportions of the Chelsea fanbase who have also stood up against this latest development, and whilst the club is quite clearly a few cards short of a full deck, at least a fair percentage of their fans are not.

The Daily Mirror has led with a story claiming that Gallas will look towards legal proceedings against Chelsea over the matter, whilst the Independent claims that the FA will press Chelsea to provide proof of these libellous allegations. The Independent goes on to suggest that Arsene is in France for their European qualifier against Italy, and will try to convince Gallas not to take it further so that the whole affair will come to an end sooner rather than later.

All of this is rather dull to me, as I'm fairly certain that Chelsea are, for the most part (Jose Mourinho, Bruce Buck, Peter Slaphead), a bunch of liars, so I feel that there is little interest in the conclusion of this debacle. It will be Gallas' word against theirs.

The more interesting story for me that came out yesterday is the news that instead of taking the number 3 shirt, as first though, Gallas has instead opted for Dennis' number 10. Personally I would have liked to have seen the number given some breathing room after Bergkamp's departure, at least a season. Some fans have been made a bit upset by the decision, some are suggesting that it was Wenger's idea to give him the number 10, whilst I think that Gallas is desperate to stay away from 3 as it's a left back's number and he doesn't want to be freely associated with that position. As Gallas was initially given the number 3 on his profile I think it's far more likely that he requested a change than he was intentionally given the number 10.

Our new number 9 was in action against Wales for Brazil last night in a friendly played at White Hart Lane (I love the fact that, whilst playing two friendlies in England, Brazil played Argentina at the Emirates and John Toshack's leek munchers at the Spuds' shed, fantastic analogy) and was booed for pretty much the entire game by the Spurs faithful. He spent a lot of time pushed out to the right where he looked ineffectual, but whenever he came into the centre, where he should play for us, he looked dangerous.

Roll on Saturday.