- Bryn Palmer
- 4 Sep 07, 04:26 PM
Versailles
Incroyable. Day one of England鈥檚 World Cup proper, and crocked already.
Plus ca change, mes amis, plus ca change. Brian Ashton tried to put a brave face on it, but he hardly gave the appearance of a man who said he had given up worrying about what might happen to players for fear he might lose what hair he had left.
鈥淵ou just get on with it,鈥 said the head coach, by which he presumably meant being as defensive as possible about every question asked about the subject.
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- Ben Dirs
- 4 Sep 07, 11:38 AM
Near Lens
BEN: There is something slightly disturbing about watching a man kissing and stroking a 3G internet card in the back of a darkened motor home in a remote campsite in Normandy鈥ommy?
TOM: Desperation can force a man to do many things, Benjamin. Why, there was the time that, naked as the day I was born, I was forced to鈥 but no. That story is perhaps a little racy for the current climate. And I鈥檝e apologised to the in question a thousand times, anyway.
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- Bryn Palmer
- 4 Sep 07, 08:53 AM
Versailles
鈥淢esdames et messieurs, bienvenue a Paris.鈥 It was only when I rolled into the Gare du Nord on the Eurostar on Monday afternoon that it finally hit me.
La Coupe du Monde, c鈥檈st arrive! Finally. The eternal build-up almost over, the warm-up nonsense done and dusted, the real thing upon us once again.
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