Arsenal boss Wenger claimed sensationally that Thierry Henry should have owned up to his handball cheat shame.

Arsene Wenger said to the media that the pressure of getting France to the World Cup was the reason why his former captain did not own up.

Arsenal boss Wenger even went to the dressing room urging his protégé to apologise and he said, “One should (own up), but one doesn’t, we know, with the pressure and what’s at stake.”

Wenger also added further, “We qualified by the back door like Portugal. Our qualification resembled that of Portugal. A bad start, a lack of confidence and we got through with a very uncomfortable feeling.”

The boss mentioned that the goal that they scored was hard to swallow if from the opposite camp and they would have preferred to qualify in a different manner.

Meanwhile, the striker Henry has hit back at accusations he cheated – and he had insisted that he did not steal qualification for France.