The thought of seeing Campbell end up on the sidelines again for an indefinite period just didn't bear thinking about. I felt the same when I switched over to watch the France v Germany game and I was praying that Henry came out of the game unscathed. France coach Raymond Domenech was as good as the word he gave Wenger and he pulled Henry out of the fray at half time. My relief was huge.
This brings me nicely round to the moot point of this ensuing week which is the ongoing speculation over the future of Monsieur Va Va Voom. It seems as though the world, its mother and Ruud Gullit are convinced that Arsenal's greatest goalscorer is on the verge of packing his bags and heading off to the Nou Camp in the summer.
What possibly makes Gullit such an expert on the way that Henry thinks or what is going on at Arsenal Football Club, I don't honestly know. But let's just assume that the former dreadlocked one is right and Henry does bid Adios to Arsenal, how would I feel about it personally? I can answer that in two words – who cares?
Don't get me wrong, fellow Gooners, I haven't lost my marbles here (or at least I don't think so). Nobody has ever had to spell out what a good player Henry is to me or indeed any of you out there. The fact that he has been recently voted as the best player currently plying his trade in the Premiership and the second best player of all time in the history of the Premiership in a worldwide poll speaks for itself and renders any arguments that other supporters may put up to degrade him as academic.
What I'm saying is that come next summer Arsenal have to be serious players in the transfer market whether Henry decides to stay or not. And, even if Arsene himself doesn't necessarily appreciate that, then the Arsenal boardroom surely do.
The Arsenal board could point to an extremely lengthy season ticket waiting list but I'll be amazed if they were arrogant enough, smug enough or stupid enough to think that every single Arsenal fan on that waiting list is willing to shell out hundreds if not thousands of pounds in advance just to see what the inside of our new stadium looks like. The board must realise that they cannot take the fans loyalty for granted or think that our love for the club is totally unconditional. They have to realise that we fans do need something to really believe in.
Now, I like to think that from a personal point of view, I have been fair to Arsene and backed his judgement in terms of who he has bought and sold in the last 18 months or so. This time last year, I remember imploring Arsene to get the cheque book out and saying in many an occasion that he had to buy last January.
No activity ensued in January and of course, we know who came and went in the summer. I accepted all that went on (or more to the point, what didn't) and, because I felt that I owed it to him as an Arsenal fan, I made a conscious effort to refrain from getting all hysterical and criticising Wenger despite the reservations I had.
I have even steeled myself for the likely sight of seeing precious little transfer activity when the next transfer window opens again just after Christmas this year. But I will not be in such a forgiving mood if Arsenal went through another period of inactivity in the transfer market next summer as well – World Cup year or no World Cup year.
Come next summer, Henry's potential departure is just the tip of the iceberg. Dennis Bergkamp will have hung up his boots by then, Pires is also likely to head out of the door too unless there is a climb-down on the club's policy where the over 30's are concerned. And Ashley Cole could be also on his way out too, though, as I have said in the past, if he left I wouldn't be shedding a tear over that after his shenanigans with the PRF.
However the fact (albeit a hypothetical one) is that three more experienced proven performers will have left in addition to a lengthy list of others that have left the club in the last 18 months or so.
If that scenario did become reality, then neither Arsene nor the board can afford to even flirt with the idea of letting another batch of experienced players go and either replacing them once again with another bunch of untried youngsters that have been brought in on the cheap and on the back of loopholes that have been cleverly exploited or not at all.
Arsene is currently toeing a party line claiming to all and sundry that he is happy with his squad and so on. But whilst he may genuinely believe that now, it will not hold much weight if he chooses not to bring in more players and continues to say similar things next summer.
That will be the time when we will really get an idea of what Arsene has at his disposal in terms of cash. More than that, it will also be the time when both he and the board will have no choice but to make some sort of stand and some sort of statement of intent to our rivals or find.
The novelty factor alone will guarantee that our new stadium will be full for the first few of months or so but if a statement of intent does not materialise (whether Henry stays or not) then some fans will start to feel a little short changed and even that they have been lied to over the financial state of the club and as a result they could vote with their feet. Interesting times ahead methinks.
Anyway, it's time to look at the trip to the JJB Stadium where the Arsenal will face the surprise packages Wigan.
When you talk about surreal rags to riches stories in football, Wigan have to be right up there with the best of them. For years and years the town was only really famous for one thing certainly in sporting terms – Rugby League.
For years and years, Wigan Athletic Football Club played in front of sparse crowds of no more than 2,000 on average at their old ground in the lower leagues. Now they sit second in the Premiership and they will be playing the Arsenal on Saturday in front of a sell out crowd of 24,000.
It's one heck of a story it really is.
And let's get one thing straight right now; the Latics are where they are on merit pure and simple and I think the secret of their success to date is simple – they have gone out and played their own game and tried to make the opposition worry about them rather than the other way round.
I was in the Twelve Pins when they played the Phoney Russian Franchise on the opening day of the season and frightened the living daylights out of them. Barring their finishing, The Latics were terrific on the afternoon and the one abiding memory I had whilst watching the match that day was that Wigan were so impressive, the vast majority of Arsenal fans forgot about hoping the Latics could nick a point and they genuinely wanted to see Wigan go on and win the game. The fact that they didn't was nothing short of a travesty.
Still, they didn't allow their misfortune on the opening day to get them down and their record in the last seven league games before the international break has been, quite literally, second to none.
Wigan's strength appears to lie in their ability to counter attack and counter attack hard with their quick forwards, Camara and Roberts. One of their partners in crime is actually Pascal Chimbonda. He loves to bomb forward at every opportunity and he has shown himself to be a pretty dangerous customer in the air at set pieces despite the fact that he is not exactly the biggest of blokes.
Mind you, the one person that has really impressed me whenever I have watched him is the left back Leighton Baines. On paper he had arguably the toughest job in football on the opening weekend of the season – stopping the likes of Damien Duff and Arjen Robben down the wing. But having initially seen Robben off, he was then pitched against Duff when he switched wings. He saw him off as well and having seen that neither Duff nor Robben were getting any joy out of him, Moaninho hauled them BOTH off at half time. Baines has already played for England under 21's and I can honestly say that if Cole does leave next summer we could do a lot worse than buy this kid.
Although I expect Campbell and Toure to have their hands fairly full on Saturday dealing with Roberts and Camara, I think the key to this game lies in the hands of Wigan's two central defenders, De Zeeuw and Henchoz. Both are very experienced and know their way around the Premiership scene and together they have formed a pretty decent partnership. The only downside is that neither of them are the quickest and with Henry on the prowl they cannot afford to push up the field too much and leave space in behind.
It's a game that I can see quite a few goals being scored in. More than that though, the incentives for Arsenal are huge. I know that Wigan will be seen as the team with nothing to lose but from our point of view there isn't a better place in the country to go in search of that elusive first away win.
I think the game will be a belter. Mind you, if we win this particular game in the last minute with the ball going in off someone's backside that will do me nicely.