- 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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