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LONDON: Arsene Wenger's pleasure at seeing Arsenal progress to the Champions League knockout stage has been tempered by injury blows to two crucial defenders ahead of Sunday's pivotal English Premier League tussle with Chelsea.

THIERRY HENRY and Co have landed a Hand of Wad - thanks to his Hand of Frog. France's skipper negotiated a deal where players earned bonuses of up to 406,600 for reaching next year's World Cup.

Barcelona has signed France international Eric Abidal to a one-year contract extension that keeps him with the European champions through 2012.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is reported to be preparing a bid to sign Loc Rmy, the Nice striker who is being hailed as the "new Thierry Henry". By Telegraph staff Published: 11:30AM GMT 25 Nov 2009 Young talent: Loic Remy is being monitored by Arsenal, AC Milan, Lyon and Bordeaux Photo: GETTY IMAGES According to a report in The Sun , the 22 ...

A revered French footballer, Thierry Henry, flicks the ball with his hand and then taps it across the face of goal for William Gallas to score - sending France to the 2010 Word Cup in South Africa.

Arsenal advanced to the Champions League knockout round after beating Standard Liege 2-0 with goals from Samir Nasri and Denilson in the first half on Tuesday.

Bayern Munich says France international Franck Ribery is training on his own after his wife contracted swine flu.

The London Evening Standard says the club are still weighing up whether they will try to make another attempt to sign the France international, who was their No1 target last summer.

Barcelona duo Eric Abidal and Yaya Toure have come down with swine flu and will play no part in their side's Primera Division clash at Athletic Bilbao.

FRANCE captain Thierry Henry admits he considered quitting international football following the uproar caused by his part in the goal which sent Les Bleus to the World Cup finals at the Republic of Ireland's expense.

Fellow football internationals rallied to support Thierry Henry after his controversial handball cheating incident in last week's World Cup qualifier for France against Ireland.

French forward Thierry Henry controls the ball in front of Irish defender John O'Shea during the World Cup 2010 qualifying football match France vs.

When he called for a replay of the match with Ireland, the former Arsenal striker knew that it was never likely to happen Ian Hawkey Barcelona's star striker turned up for practice last week with an eye-catching slogan across his designer sweatshirt.

Defender Gabriel Heinze scored against his former teammates to give Marseille a 1-0 win over Paris Saint-Germain on Friday in a French league match which was postponed from last month.

FIFA rejected Ireland's request to replay its World Cup qualifier against France on Friday, while Thierry Henry said a rematch would be "the fairest solution" to resolve the furor over his extra-time hand ball that set up the deciding goal.

Robbie Keane is refusing to accept that his World Cup dream is over despite FIFA rejecting the Republic of Ireland's call for a replay of their play-off with France.

France midfielder Lassana Diarra believes it would be a mistake to get rid of under-fire coach Raymond Domenech, despite the national team's disappointingshowing at Euro 2008.The French Football Federation are set to announce on Thursday whether they will keep faith with Domenech, who is under pressure after Les Bleus finished bottom of their group ...

Republic of Ireland winger Damien Duff has admitted he probably would have replicated Thierry Henry's now infamous handball if the opportunity had arisen at the other end of the field.

FIFA said Thursday it had receieved a letter from the Irish Football Association requesting a replay of their controversial World Cup qualifying playoff against France.

The Republic of Ireland's pleas to have their World Cup clash with France replayed are likely to fall on deaf ears.