Le Capitan?

I first got to apologize for being absent for so long.  The fact is life, work and no play make for a very dull time, but that dull time pays the bills (including the cable bill that keeps bringing the Arsenal to my TV and the Internet bill that lets me rant here).  It's not like much has happened.  Arsenal have won.  Arsenal have struggled.  Arsenal continue onward.

(BTW, slight TV break to laugh at the continuing crapage -- crap and garbage -- going on at Shite Hard Lane.  Juande the Magician along with Poyet the Translator and the whole lot were thrown out on the street today BEFORE they could lose to Bolton.  In comes none other than Harry Redknapp.  I'd watch those transfer dealings though).

So allow me instead of talking about any specific game to go on for a few about our captain, dear old William "Capi" Gallas.

The last few weeks have beena awash in anguish and anger (alliterations galore) over comments and actions of Captain Gallas of the Starship Arsenal.  First there was his interview with France Football magazine which gave us his secret locker room gang name ("Capi").  Then there was the photo of him leaving a club smoking (*GASP*).  And in the middle have been a number of performances that can kindly be thought of as up-and-down combined with the odd injury.

It's clear that a majority of fans aren't behind Gallas as captain as they would have been if that role had been given to Gilberto Silva (the expected choice) or Kolo Toure or Cesc Fabregas (the heirs to that role).  That decision by Arsene ranked a lot of the supporters and nothing Gallas has done in his 1 year + of captaincy has made them rethink their position.  

So two questions arise:  Is there anything Gallas can do to win fans over?  And if not how can Arsene take back the armband without losing a very talented, but mercurial player.  

OK, one more: should Arsene even try to retain Gallas, who has crossed the 30-year old threshhold and is too similar a player to Kolo?

One way or another, I don't know if "Capi" will be around next year as captain.  Something will give.

Game review tomorrow.  Promise.