Another quiet few days on the domestic front. La bienheureuse returned tired but unscathed from her encounter with the European bureaucrats in Brussels, I've been plugging laboriously away at my chosen metier by carrying out another minor rewrite.
Elsewhere, while the financial world continues to fall apart, the football world carries on regardless. I passed up the opportunity to watch OL ladies beat Arsenal ladies 3-0 on Tuesday night in favour of watching l'équipe masculine de France play Tunisia in a friendly. Les bleus continued where they left off in the previous couple of games - a minor resurgence in attacking form balanced by a continued disorganisation in defence.
The perceived return of a semblance of team spirit and cohesive play has been enough for the Fédération de Football Français to confirm Domenech in his position as coach on Wednesday. However, that decision was overshadowed by the fact that the large Tunisian support (outnumbering the home team fans) in the Stade de France loudly whistled the singing of La Marseillaise (by a singer of Tunisian origin). Much outrage amongst politicians and media the next day led to Sarkozy summoning the president of the FFF to the Palais de l'Elysée for a dressing down.
A subsequent announcement that any similar future incidents would result in the game being abandoned has been somewhat derided in the cold light of day this morning as being in the heat of the moment, with the impracticalities of such a move being pointed out. UEFA have said only they and the referee have the power to abandon a game. Others have questioned the effect of turfing eighty thousand disgruntled fans out on the streets of Paris. Unlikely to be peaceful, I venture...
