Gallas Guns For Arsenal's Youngsters

It’s a bad time to be a 25-year-old at the The Emirates as club captain William Gallas lifts the lid on the dressing room flare up which occurred during Arsenal’s recent draw with neighbours Tottenham.

Gallas said of the player responsible, “I’m 31, the player is six years younger than me.”

While his latest outburst puts Emmanuel Eboue and Bacary Sagna in the frame, it is understood that Robin Van Persie was the player causing the rumpus. You may think  that by now Gallas would know better than to throw stones in glass houses, but in an explosive interview with L’Equipe he pointed more fingers than you can count on both hands.

“I am trying to defend myself a bit without giving names. Otherwise I’m taking it all. It’s very frustrating."

"We are coming up against teams who are not scared to play football against us, who are not scared to take us on at our place, and this is becoming dangerous for Arsenal,” forewarned the Frenchman.

The two time Premier League winner has a reputation for being a smoking gun and this episode is the latest in a long line of whistle blowing antics.

Another time Gallas was gracious enough not to name names but instead use cryptic clues was in the retelling of an incident from the French team bus which occurred during the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

He identified a team mate as “S” and this swine had all the attributes Gallas despises in the youth of today, “they seem cheeky, very sure of themselves. They think they know everything but they know nothing.”

So what advice could Gallas offer this youngster who was shooting his mouth off as Les Blues cruised along an Autobahn in Germany?

“Are you speaking to me?” said Gallas, ever the man of maturity, “Who do you take yourself for? You’re only 20... I'm not your friend.”

Imagine the scenes when the other player in question, Samir Nasri, rolled into Arsenal’s London Colney training complex to report for pre-season training?

What these whippersnappers don’t seem to understand is that Gallas was in their shoes once and when he was he knew his place. Enlighten us William:

“I too was 20 years old once. I would never have allowed myself to speak in such a way to a player older than me. We respected the veterans. We shut our mouths. They [young players] don’t have to work as hard as I did. It might not be their fault but it is wrong.”

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