Nevertheless, Lemerre feels he has a more than adequate replacement in the shape of Pires.
Lemerre has already been deprived of Arsenal midfielder Robert Pires, who injured his knee in March.
"We are keeping the traffic from Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay to Brazil, " Pires said.
Pires finished off from close range after good work from defender Kolo Toure three minutes before half-time.
Veteran winger Pires restored Villa's lead with a sweet half-volley before Nathan Delfouneso's header made it 3-1.
Robert Pires may line up alongside Zidane in midfield after Emmanuel Petit was ruled out because of injury.
Henry looked offside as he picked up Robert Pires' pass after 31 minutes to beat Southampton keeper Antti Niemi.
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Pires slipped him through and the Frenchman slotted home his 135th Highbury goal.
Pires pulled one back on 90 minutes to set up a tense finish, but the Hammers held on for a hard-fought victory.
Robert Pires' precision free-kick put Arsenal ahead and soon after Jose Antonio Reyes' run and angled shot exposed some lax Liverpool defending.
Earlier Robert Pires (17) and Ruben Cani (62) twice put the Yellow Submarines ahead either side of a Rafael Van der Vaart equalizer.
Pires has scored seven times in his last six games against Southampton, and he had two efforts on target in the opening three minutes.
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Villa remained on top, however, and regained control of the game thanks to two goals in quick succession before half-time from Pires and Delfouneso.
Rovers briefly rallied and Pires had to hack a Kalinic shot off the line while Friedel pushed a Chris Samba header round his post.
Another recipient of the medal, Lino Pires, 79, has run the Butcher's Arms Restaurant in Priors Hardwick, near Southam, for more than 38 years.
It was Van der Vaart's final contribution as he was replaced by Peter Crouch, with Villa replacing the tiring Fabian Delph with veteran Robert Pires.
Arsenal were at the centre of a diving controversy two seasons ago when midfielder Robert Pires won a penalty against Portsmouth to seal a home draw.
Pires was soon in the thick of the action when he was involved in an altercation with Redknapp on the sidelines following a foul on the Frenchman.
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Van Persie came off the bench to seal it with a fine individual effort and then a curling left-foot shot past Brad Friedel after being set up by Pires.
Pires' low drive through a crowd of players deflected in off Henry to give the Frenchman the league goals record for the club, overtaking Cliff Bastin's total of 150.
Arsenal started the second half with the same verve as they began the first with Pires and Ljungberg wasting good chances and van Persie causing problems from set pieces.
Jeanine Pires, president of Embratur, the Brazilian Tourist Board, said it's still too early to assess what impact the financial crisis will have on Brazil in terms of international tourism.
These are being investigated by the ebook publication and reader forum collaboration by Claudio Pires Franco and Duncan Pile for Nature Mage and the transmedia augmented reality (AR) fiction Sherwood Rise by David Miller.
And if Farnborough's flagging players were relieved to see the back of Pires midway through the second half, they would have had mixed emotions by the arrival of substitutes Dennis Bergkamp and Sylvain Wiltord.
Adriano Pires, director of the Brazilian Center for Infrastructure, a Rio de Janeiro based business management consultancy, said Brasilia should think twice about using Petrobras as a policy tool to fight inflation, among other things.
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In 2009 and 2010 it failed to find a single deserving candidate, and in 2011 it did so only by venturing offshore to award it to Pedro Pires, the outgoing president of the pinhead-size islands of Cape Verde.
Divorced mothers Teresa Pires and Helena Paixao became the first in Portugal, in June 2010 - a month after the law they had campaigned for came into effect - and hailed it as a "great victory, a dream come true".
The 10-week tournament features mostly Indian players, but also a number of "marquee" European soccer stars, admittedly out of their prime but still huge draws: former Juventus strikers Alessandro Del Piero and David Trezeguet, and former Arsenal attackers Robert Pires and Freddie Ljungberg.
Their decision to switch the tie to Highbury for financial reasons was understandable, however, and Boro could at least say they had tackled some of the world's best players as Arsenal fielded the likes of Robert Pires in their starting line-up.
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