Henry calls for tougher punishment for Aragones

Arsenal's Thierry Henry has called a 3,000-euro fine given to Spain coach Luis Aragones for abusive comments about the France striker "ridiculous" and is urging FIFA to take action.

Aragones was fined on Tuesday by the Spanish Football Federation after referring to Henry in an October training session as "that black s***" in an exchange with his Arsenal team-mate Jose Antonio Reyes.

"To fine Aragones 3,000 euros is absolutely ridiculous," Henry said yesterday.

"You have to look at the Spanish authorities and they must take a long look at themselves.

"They obviously don't care about racism. There have been other times when they have fined clubs a few hundred euros for racism."

The Spanish federation said Aragones had not broken any anti-racist rules. Aragones said he had done nothing wrong.

"It is laughable," Henry said.

"They fined him for the sake of it, not because they felt he said something wrong."