Can't help but smile...

... at the reaction to Sports Minister Rama Yade being shunned by the French squad for the visit to the township.
Each of those players is paid enough to actually fund a new pitch there for the kids themselves.
So why does the FFF have to pay the 100,000 euros for the new pitch ?
And instead of Rama Yade criticising the luxury hotel for the French squad, why isn't she saying the cash the FFF is spending in The Township should instead be spent in France on French kids clubs?
And that the players themselves should pay for the new township pitch out of their own match bonuses?
Or indeed Raymond Domenech's'800,000 plus euro bonus for reaching the finals?
Get the picture?
The tame French media do not. Canal + Sport asked why does a person who knows nothing about sport become its minister?
Maybe they should ask that about their own "consultants" who seem scared to state the sporting obvious.
Anyway on a personal note - England were rubbish.
From now on I support any team with an Everton player in the line up.