True story. At the rehearsal for the World Cup draw yesterday, Charlize Theron pulled out the ball for "France" and said "Ireland". Heh heh heh.

Hmmm. Having looked at it a few times, it really was quite horribly blatant, wasn't it?

Bixente Lizarazu. 97 Caps for France, one World Cup winners medal, one European Championships medal, one Champions League winners medal and six Bundesliga titles. Did you know that he is also the current European jiu-jitsu champion in the under 76kg...

[this is a cross-post from here, but it's making me really angry and it seems relevant to include it here too....apologies] --- There's a bit in Joseph Heller's "Catch-22" where Captain Black runs something he calls the "Glorious Loyalty Oath...

101 Great Goals #34 - John Goossens It's not very often that my adopted Dutch club, NEC Nijmegen, appear above the radar. They are the very definition of 'mid table mediocrity' - sitting in the middle of the Eredivisie every single year, doing...