Emmanuel Petit has revealed that he once called out ’s ‘extremely arrogant attitude’ in front of the forward and manager .
Petit and Henry were teammates at both club and international level, spending the 1999/2000 season together at , as well as winning the 1998 and Euro 2000 with France.
Whilst the pair were extremely successful, they did not always see eye-to-eye, as Petit explained on French channel RMC: ‘I had a conversation with Titi [Henry] in front of Arsene Wenger when we were playing for Arsenal. There were five of us at a sponsor’s event, together with Dennis Bergkamp and Patrick Vieira.
‘We had played a few days before, I think at Highbury, and Titi had scored twice. I hadn’t liked his celebration one little bit. He had gone over to the corner flag, with an extremely arrogant attitude.
‘I told him that myself and some of the other players didn’t like the way he celebrated. He understandably didn’t take what I said at all well. But it was all too much as far as I was concerned.
‘I challenged Arsene and told him it wasn’t my job to tell Henry off – instead it was down to him.’
The conversation clearly didn’t affect the players’ relationship too much with both now considered Gunners legends having made a combined 486 appearances for the club and won a collective three Premier League titles and three FA Cups.
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