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Arsenal's Wenger offers axed Gallas a shock recall.


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London, Nov.24 (ANI): Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger has said that he may recall axed skipper William Gallas if he apologises to his team-mates.

Defender Gallas was stripped of the captaincy and left out of Saturday's defeat at Manchester City.

However, the Daily Express quoted Wenger as saying: "Cesc Fabregas will be available and maybe Gallas. We can change a captain without making a political issue. Of course, he has a future here but the less we talk the better."

Gallas is likely to have to say sorry to the whole squad before training this morning before Wenger reinstates him - a stipulation that could well represent far too large a helping of humble pie humble pie
n.
A pie formerly made from the edible organs of a deer or hog.

Idiom:
eat humble pie
To be forced to apologize abjectly or admit one's faults in humiliating circumstances.
 for the deposed club captain.

But Arsenal legend Nigel Winterburn Nigel Winterburn (born December 11 1963 in Arley, Warwickshire) is a retired English footballer who formed part of the legendary Arsenal back four of the late 1980s and all of the 1990s.  has pleaded with Gallas to back down.

He said: "If Gallas is to remain at the club, he has got to apologise." (ANI)

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