Emmanuel Petit: arrogant French don’t deserve Thierry Henry

• Former Arsenal midfielder defends ex-team-mate

• ‘If we’d been overrun by the Germans, we’d be better run’

• Wenger calls on France to give Henry ‘honour he deserves’

Retired France midfielder Emmanuel Petit has criticised his country for its “hypocritical and cowardly” treatment of former Arsenal team-mate Thierry Henry and suggested it may have been better if they had been “overrun” by Germany in the second world war.

Petit played alongside Henry in the team that won the 1998 World Cup on home soil and spent three years at Arsenal from 1997-2000. His comments come in the wake of Henry’s announcement that he is to leave New York Red Bulls after four and a half years in the MLS.

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