SOUTH AFRICA – The prime things France has to swank about is the Eiffel Tower, a 1998 FIFA World Cup and Napoleon and one of those was a 5-foot midget with a tiny penis complex.

In this year’s FIFA competition, France’s team has shown a personality many outsiders believe runs parallel their country’s.

After tying vast underdog Uruguay then getting their asses handed to them by Mexico 2-0 in their second game, team star, Nicolas Anelka, threw a temper-tantrum and was said to have given his coach, Raymond Domenech, a severe vulgar tongue lashing.

The coach’s response was sending Anelka back home to France to sulk in his tears after the player refused to apologize and smooth things over but the French team’s Cirque Du Soleil act didn’t end there.

The following day when the team’s bus arrived to practice for their final game in this round, the players had a get-together and refused to take the field and train leaving the team in so much turmoil, their team director resigned to get as far away from the fiasco as possible.

The French a ‘bunch of quitters’ . . . sounds familiar doesn’t it? Where’s that 5-foot tyrant with the penis complex when they need him.

Back to the French FIFA fiasco, after the incidents, the coach ripped his players:

“I tried to convince them that what they were doing was an aberration, an imbecility, a stupidity without name.”

Without a name! We have plenty of names for that here in America and one is called being a bunch of pussies. And if the word ‘pussies’ offends you then insert ‘Quitters’, ‘cry-babies’ or ‘Dickheads’.

The Frenchies did return to work out on Monday prepping for their match against South Africa on Tuesday in their Group A match. The leapers need a win to hold on to any mathematical chance of moving on to the next round.

Oh BTW, France’s captain, Patrice Evra, may be stripped of his role as captain, a position he has held for just five games for initiating the mutiny against his coach.

“I haven’t picked the team yet, we will see tomorrow.” Domenech said. “It’s sad.”

For some yes it is, but for others it’s happiness and justice. There’s a reason NHL top draft picks like Eric Lindros refused to go play in French-speaking Quebec for the Quebec Nordiques team when he was coming into the league. NHL players were treated like scum and basically ignored in the Nordiques’ locker room and around the town since they were English-speaking people. The French have long ago earned their reputation for reeking arrogance, blow your vuvuzela to that!

I have travelled several countries in Europe including Italy, Greece, Croatia, England and yes France; the ONLY country I have ever been to where I was treated with total disrespect from the time I stepped onto their soil.

Back to the FIFA thing because it’s getting even worse, when Coach Domenech was asked if some players had told him they do not want to play the game, he stumbled around the question.

“It is a possibility that we will finalize [the roster] tonight with the staff to see what team we put in place.”

Well whatever team the French put out on the field, expect some sort of boilover from their embarrassing Circus act, and if you are like a lot of people, you will enjoy every minute of it. Bring on the Freedom Fries!

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