Soccer: Arsenal gunning for glory for absent friends

Thierry Henry didn’t so much wear his heart on his sleeve against Sunderland as on his T-shirt.

The Frenchman returned from his three-match ban for berating referee Graham Poll last December to celebrate what turned out to be a disallowed goal by stripping off his shirt and revealing a message for injured compatriot Robert Pires and Dutch midfielder Giovanni van Bronkhorst: ‘Gio, Robert, Thinking Of You’.