Ate great food, visited beautiful museums, witnessed student riots and spotted a French film star to boot (well, kind of... Dominique Pinon, the man with the squashed face who is in all the Jean-Pierre Jeunet films.) What more could one ask for from a French vacation?
Football-wise I fell a bit out of touch, but I did watch the second half of last week's fantastic Arsenal-Liverpool match on French TV. Go ahead, see if you can guess who the French commentary team was pulling for.
There was much talk about Thierry Henry, whom one of the commentators wonderfully referred to as "un cadeau pour football" (a gift for football). They also emphasized a point that can't be repeated enough: for France to do well in the World Cup this summer, Henry must have a great tournament. He's never shined on that stage before: in 1998 he was a promising youngster on the subs bench, and in 2002 he, like the rest of the French team, flopped. Could 2006 be his year?
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