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June 07, 2002

Bof!

Just back from watching the France-Uruguay match; the first 0-0 draw of the tournament, but what a good game. We were rooting for Uruguay all the way through but despite some very good chances they weren't able to find the net - even after France had a player sent off after about 25 minutes by the card-happy ref. Quel toupet!*

I actually drew France in a sweepstake a month or so ago, but any vested financial interest in their success took a back seat to smug schadenfreude as soon as they lost to Senegal in the opener, so there was plenty of merry zut alors!-ing coming from our sofa as we watched les Bleus flush their trophy hopes even further down le chiotte this evening.

We decided during the Senegal match that French for "spoon", as in "to spoon a shot over the crossbar", was "le spoon" - as none of us were sure of how to pronounce (or even spell) cuillère. That one's been getting a lot of practice, that's for sure. I'm sure my old French teacher, Monsieur Rocher, would also be very impressed by my now fluent command of the simultaneous Gallic-shrug-and-"Bof!", which is practically all that remains of my A-level French. ("Urrr, Jenneengz, you arr taking zee piss? Bof!") Bless.

Posted by chris at June 7, 2002 12:26 AM | Permalink

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