Arsenal ace Samir Nasri has
explained his side of his blow-up with Thierry Henry while with the
France squad.
William Gallas, now of Tottenham, detailed the incident in his book,
which led to a feud with Nasri.
"When I arrived with the national team Thierry was injured with
a back problem," Nasri told the Daily Mail. "He wasn’t
there. So when I came, I was sitting in one place. I didn’t know it
was Thierry’s place.
"Then Thierry comes back and I’m sitting there, and he talks to
me like, 'That’s my place'. And I said, 'Well, it doesn’t have your
name on it'. But then he explained to me that he had been sitting
there for 12 years and that it was his favourite seat and I said,
'OK, no problem'. I said he could take his seat, and he told me to
sit next to him.
"'We will watch a DVD,' he said. For me, there was no reason for
it to be in Gallas’s book. If I ever write a book I will not talk
about what happened about a seat on a bus. For me there is no
point. He can talk about Chelsea, Marseille or Arsenal but not about being on the team bus or in
the dressing room. There is no point in doing that.
"We had been involved in arguments before then. During training
at Euro 2008, although after that I thought everything was fine.
When I arrived at Arsenal it was
perfect but then the book came out and I told him I didn’t agree
with what he had done in the book. We had another argument and we
decided not to talk to each other again.’"