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In the time honoured tradition of the good old sporting clich? it’s time to break open the thesaurus, cry over the spilled milk and join the rest of the country in mourning France’s humiliating exit from Euro 2008.
On the morning after the night before, the French newspaper headlines are inevitably screaming for the head of […]

Belgium’s former world cycling champion, Tom Boonen, has been forced out of this year’s Tour de France.
The rider was barred after it was revealed that he had tested positive for cocaine use outside of competition in May.
So drugs are yet again making the headlines of cycling’s annual “jewel in the crown” and it hasn’t even […]

The French have rather an appropriate expression for a football game that ends in a draw – “match nul”. And that just about sums up the general sentiment after France’s opening 0-0 non-thriller against Romania at Euro 2008.
With the Netherlands thrashing World Cup holders Italy 3-0 in the so-called “Group of Death’s” other game, perhaps […]