Thierry Henry readers' choice to replace Gary Neville on Monday Night Football

Henry won our poll with a quarter of the votes

Thierry Henry and Jamie Carragher are delivered the news

Thierry Henry was the overwhelming winner in our readers' poll to find the best man to replace Gary Neville on Monday Night Football.

With Neville departed for Spain after surprisingly being named Valencia manager, a gaping hole was left in Sky Sports' football coverage alongside Jamie Carragher on the channel's flagship analysis show.

Since joining the channel after retiring from a brilliant career with Manchester United, Neville become easily the favourite football pundit in the UK, winning awards for his in-depth analysis alongside Jamie Carragher and presenter Ed Chamberlin.

Henry joined the channel last December, picking up a record salary said to be in the region of £4million-a-year, eclipsing Neville's estimated £1.2m salary.

The Arsenal legend has been good on the channel without being outstanding and although he is a regular on Super Sunday and has made appearances on other shows he is yet to really have his own - Neville and Carragher were nearly always on Monday Night Football and Jamie Redknapp on Saturday Night Football.

But our readers have spoken and in a poll we run on Wednesday, more than a quarter of Independent.co.uk readers would like to see the Frenchman alongside Carragher.

Henry won 26 per cent of the vote, with almost 4,000 readers taking part. Neville's former team-mate Paul Scholes was closest to him with 20 per cent, the former Manchester United midfielder impressing in his regular slot on BT Sport's Champions League coverage.

No other pundit recevied more than eight per cent of the vote, with 'other' coming in third place after picking up 16 per cent of the votes.

Three former Liverpool players, Graeme Souness, Steven Gerrard and Danny Murphy, were tied for fourth with eight per cent of the vote.