Are the celebrations of 70 years of De Gaulle's rousing call to the French people going to be enough to forget about the humiliation Les Bleus received at the hands of Mexico last night? One should say "at the feet of", of course - after all, it is the French who qualified for this World Cup thanks to an (illegal) hand goal in the first place... The French team is all but eliminated after only two games. They didn't look like they had any interest in being on the field. As a friend said, it should have been 5-0... As the same friend says (usually about the US team), I have so far scored as many goals in the World Cup as the entire French team. To hope qualifying for the next stage, they now need to win something like 6-0 against South Africa AND hope that Mexico and Uruguay -who now only need a draw in their match against each other to qualify- are not going to rig their game and agree to play soft and not tire their players too much. Professional players on the biggest stage wouldn't do that, would they?...
Today, our President is going to be in London, from where De Gaulle was speaking on the BBC 70 years ago. His lovely wife, Carla, is not accompanying him. She is in a studio, recording her next album and apparently cannot be extracted from her art for half a day. Of course, what the Parisians really say is, well, she's never been with the same man for three years before, so she might not be so eager to follow him around anymore. Plus, she's Italian, and it might be tricky to be seen celebrating something that eventually resulted in the (true, this one) humiliation of your country. Oh, well, at least Italy still has hope to be staying another week in South Africa. They have played only one game so far and their group includes Paraguay, Slovakia and New Zealand.
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