I didn’t see Henry handball, says Gallas

WILLIAM Gallas, has broken his silence on the goal which knocked Ireland out the World Cup.

He claimed that he had no idea Henry had handled the ball in the run-up to his strike which secured France’s place in South Africa.

“At the time, I didn’t see that he had handled it. You couldn’t see it from where I was. I just put it in and ran off to celebrate like I would normally,” he said on French TV’s Canal Football Club.

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