Henry's Still Got the Va-Va-Voom ; He's Come Under Attack From Critics but Former Arsenal Striker Can Return Tonight to Get the French Out of Their Euro Tight Spot.

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GREATNESS in football comes at a price. When you've had a career as magnificent as Thierry Henry's, how it must grate when each time your performance fails to hit celestial heights, you are somehow perceived to be some sort of under-achiever.

It happened at Highbury when the countless big-match wins his genius conjured up for Arsenal would be conveniently forgotten by churls eager to suggest how he'd gone missing on, say, the odd wet European night. It happens in France, too, where his naysayers can somehow ignore his World Cup, European Championship and Confederations Cup winners' medals, his 100 caps and his record 44 goals and still swear blind he's too often been an arrogant letdown for his national team.

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Henry's Still Got the Va-Va-Voom ; He's Come Under Attack From Critics but Former Arsenal Striker Can Return Tonight to Get the French Out of Their Euro Tight Spot.

Yet the true measure of the man is that with one of Les Bleus' rare but spectacular calamities threatening to unfold in Berne tonight, a nation wouldn't turn its eyes to anyone else but 'Titi'.

Relieved their totem has shaken off the thigh strain which sidelined him while France labour...

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