Arsenal Captain William Gallas has broken the unwritten rule of being a team mate: "What's said in the dressing room, stays in the dressing room". It's one of sports great cliches, a bit like "what goes on tour stay on tour "but that wouldn't make sense in this situation.

He became Mr Grumpy at Chelsea even, we're told, threatening to score an own goal if he didn't get a move. In the end, he got that move as he went north as another hero to the Arsenal fans, Ashley Cole, headed west. Before long, Arsene Wenger promoted him to captain.

The dictionary's definition of captain is...."One who commands, leads, or guides others, especially a designated leader of a sports team".

Think Russell Crowe in Gladiator, think John Terry on Wednesday (awful mistake that led to goal but scores to rectify). Then think of Gallas, yes that's the one that sits on the pitch and cries when Arsenal have a bad game against Birmingham, the one that tells the secretive press that his team mates are falling out, and that one of his colleagues insults and harasses the other players.

I know how they feel. I got into work by 6 o'clock this morning and before i'd even logged on my computer I had my editor barking at me. He wanted to know who we could speak to about this and he expected an answer even I hadn't even had my obligatory cup of coffee. I think the Arsenal players have it lucky, they don't have to try and wake up Martin Keown at 7am. For those of you who don't know it's actually illegal to call footballers before 9am.

I eventually tracked down Perry Groves who played over 150 times for Arsenal and got him to chat to Rachel and Nicky. He was wide awake....and was keen to tell us his views

There may be unrest in the Arsenal camp but at least they don't have a full-blooded mutiny on their hands which is what will happen on this show unless things start to change. It's been a while since we won some silverware too you know (although more recently than Arsenal.Ed).

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