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lundi 26 septembre 2011

The Big Three German?

Le Big Three allemand ? 
Le Big Three allemand ?
- Reuters
Une nouvelle fois vainqueurs, le Bayern Munich, le Werder Brême et le Borussia Mönchengladbach ont creusé un écart avec le reste du championnat. Et Franck Ribéry a encore été décisif.
Week-end express
Le Bayern ne perd pas le rythme, mais ses poursuivants non plus, et la lutte reste serrée. Net vainqueur de Leverkusen, qui n'a plus gagné à Munich depuis 1989 (3-0), et grâce à la cinquième passe décisive personnelle de Franck Ribéry, le Bayern conserve ses deux points d'avance sur le Werder, qui a disposé du Hertha Berlin (2-1), et Mönchengladbach, qui confirme son statut d'équipe surprise après sa victoire contre Nuremberg (1-0). On notera aussi les réveils de Schalke, qui a vu son entraîneur Ralf Rangnick démissionner après trois matches sans succès, et qui s'est nettement imposé contre Fribourg (4-2) avec sur le banc l'habituel adjoint, Josef Eichkorn, et du champion, Dortmund, vainqueur in-extremis à Mayence (1-2), la première victoire à l'extérieur du championnat depuis février. Le premier remonte à la cinquième place, et le second retrouve la première partie de tableau, après deux défaites d'affilée et un nul. Wolfsburg a disposé de Kaiserslautern (1-0), tandis que Hambourg a enfin signé son premier succès de la saison, à Stuttgart (1-2). Mais le HSV demeure dernier, à la différence de buts...

Oliech accable Sochaux

Dennis Oliech 
Dennis Oliech a signé un triplé contre Sochaux - Panoramic
Grâce à un triplé de Dennis Oliech, Auxerre, mené à la pause, a renversé la vapeur et balayé des Sochaliens bien tendres défensivement (4-1). L’AJA signe ainsi un 7e match consécutif sans défaite tandis que les Lionceaux ont encaissé dix buts en deux journées !
Auxerre-Sochaux 4-1
Auxerre : A. Traoré (52e), Oliech (53e, 63e et 67e)
Sochaux : Maïga (3e)
Roi des nuls depuis le début du championnat (5 en sept journées), l’AJ Auxerre a brillamment renoué avec le succès ce dimanche face à Sochaux en s’imposant aussi largement que face à Ajaccio, sa seule victime jusque-là (4-1). Les Bourguignons peuvent remercier des Lionceaux bien tendres et encore passés au travers défensivement. Mécha Bazdarevic attendait pourtant une réaction d’orgueil de ses hommes après la gifle reçue contre Rennes en milieu de semaine (2-6). Et pendant un temps, la première période en fait, il aura bien cru la voir. Modibo Maïga n’avait ainsi besoin que de trois minutes pour tromper Sorin de près sur un bon service de Mikari (0-1, 3e) et doucher pour de longues minutes une AJA alors bien timide. Il fallait en effet attendre trente et une minutes pour que Teddy Richert ait besoin de s’employer devant Sanogo et Oliech (31e). En face, Sochaux, semblant se contenter de cette avance d’un but, gérait les débats grâce à une maîtrise technique supérieure. Mais les Lionceaux n’inquiétaient pas vraiment Sorin, si ce n’est sur ce ballon enveloppé de Martin que le portier bourguignon détournait parfaitement (29e).
Laurent Fournier, qui avait évidemment remarqué que son équipe n’avait cadré qu’un tir en première période, recadrait alors ses troupes à la pause. «J’en ai marre qu’on commence les matches comme des sénateurs. On se la raconte un peu», pestait le technicien bourguignon au micro de Foot+. Un discours musclé qui piquait au vif les Bourguignons, revenus sur la pelouse avec de bien meilleures intentions. Et en deux minutes, l’AJA renversait totalement la vapeur grâce, il faut bien le dire, à deux cadeaux de la défense sochalienne. D’abord de Perquis qui oubliait Alain Traoré dans les six mètres pour l’égalisation (1-1, 52e) puis de Mikari et Richert qui laissaient Oliech exploiter un long ballon de Chafni pour donner l’avantage aux siens en marquant dans le but vide (2-1, 53e). Complètement sonnés, les Sochaliens subissaient alors de plein fouet la furia auxerroise et le réalisme de Dennis Oliech. Le Kényan s’offrait ainsi un triplé en exploitant en deux temps un nouveau ballon en profondeur (3-1, 63e) puis en devançant Richert sur un service en or de Traoré (4-1, 67e). En un quart d’heure, Sochaux venait de se saborder. Et personne dans les rangs sochaliens ne parvenait à remettre le navire à flots. L’AJA s’imposait donc tranquillement (4-1), bonifiant ainsi parfaitement le point ramené de Lorient mercredi et renvoyant les Sochaliens à leurs doutes.
Le joueur du match
On ne peut pas dire que Dennis Oliech soit le plus technique des attaquants de Ligue 1. Mais sa puissance et sa vitesse sont des atouts précieux pour l’AJA. Le Kényan, très généreux, l’a démontré ce dimanche en signant le premier triplé de sa carrière dans l'élite et en étant passeur décisif sur le but d’Alain Traoré. Sans compter ses nombreux appels dans le dos de la défense sochalienne qui auront fini par payer. Laurent Fournier cherchait son avant-centre depuis le début de saison. Il l'a peut-être trouvé.
On n’a pas aimé
La défense sochalienne vit des heures difficiles en ce moment. Après les six buts encaissés contre Rennes mercredi, elle en a encore concédé quatre ce dimanche. La blessure rapide de Mouyokolo, sorti dès les premières minutes, ne peut pas expliquer à elle seule cette défaillance de Perquis, Mikari ou encore Corchia, systématiquement dépassés par les ballons dans leur dos. Mécha Bazdarevic va donc devoir vite resserrer les boulons de son arrière-garde, déjà passée au travers en Ligue Europa contre Kharkiv (0-4), sous peine de vivre une saison très difficile.

Brest ne va pas mieux

Brest ne va pas mieux 
Cela ne va pas mieux pour le Brest de Steeve Elana - Panoramic
Brest n’a toujours pas obtenu son premier succès de la saison et a du concéder le nul face à Ajaccio (1-1). Des regrets toutefois pour les Bretons qui auraient pu faire mieux.
Brest-Ajaccio 1-1
Brest : Roux (61e)
Ajaccio : Socrier (66e)
Qu’il est loin ce temps où Brest était le tube de l’automne avec une place de leader à la clé l’an dernier. Plus proches des profondeurs du classement en ce début de saison, les Bretons n’ont toujours pas remporté le moindre match au bout de huit journées après ce sixième nul, déjà, obtenu face à une courageuse équipe ajaccienne. Des Corses qui ont fait mieux que se défendre en première période dans un système novateur en 4-3-3 en l’absence de leur maitre à jouer, Cavalli, suspendu. Et qui se procuraient les meilleures opportunités du premier acte, comme sur ce magnifique lob lointain de Kinkela claqué par Elana (20e), ou ce centre-tir de Socrier, remplaçant un Ilan sorti prématurément,  sur lequel Sammaritano étant un poil court (39e).
Pas en confiance, comme en témoignaient de nombreuses approximations dans le jeu et un duo Roux-Ben Basat qui se cherche encore (18e, 28e), les Bretons étaient complètement dépassés. Mais retrouvaient quelques couleurs au retour des vestiaires. Plus agressifs, ils devaient tout de même attendre un coup de pied arrêté pour enfin trouver la faille. Et qui de mieux que Nolan Roux pour débloquer le score suite à un corner de Licka (1-0, 61e). On pensait alors que ce premier but de la saison pour l’attaquant du SB29 allait permettre à son équipe de reprendre confiance. Mais il n’en était rien. Une erreur de Makonda, qui assurait mal sa passe en retrait, permettait en effet à Socrier de tromper son ancien partenaire Elana (1-1, 66e). Les Brestois réagissaient alors de manière un peu désordonnée mais seul Poyet se révélait menaçant, sa tentative étant déviée juste à côté par Jackson Mendy (78e). Trop faible pour espérer mieux. La course au maintien ne fait que débuter…
Le joueur du match
Après son départ avorté à Schalke, il avait semblé quelque peu perturbé. Mais bien déterminé à donner le maximum, Nolan Roux a tout tenté face à Ajaccio. Très actif, il a bien cru donner la victoire à son équipe grâce à un beau coup de tête…
On n’a pas aimé
Mais Tripy Makonda est passé par là. L’ancien Parisien a souffert face à la vivacité de Kinkela et a finit par commettre l’irréparable avec cette passe en retrait mal ajustée qui a profité à Socrier. Logiquement abattu, le latéral a presque offert le nul à une équipe ajacienne assez fantomatique en seconde période.
Résultats de la 8e journée :
Samedi 24 septembre
Evian TG-Caen 2-4
Lille-Lorient 1-1
Lyon-Bordeaux 3-1
Nice-Dijon 1-1
Toulouse-Nancy 1-0
Valenciennes-Marseille 1-1 
Montpellier-Paris SG 0-3
Dimanche 25 septembre
Auxerre-Sochaux 4-1
Brest-Ajaccio 1-1

Varane growing fast

Varane grandit vite For his second tenure with Real Madrid in a competitive match, Raphael Varane has already entered the history of the club merengue. At 18, the young French are working to prove that his choice was probably correct.Raphael Varane to Real Madrid. At 18 years old. This summer, the announcement of the transfer had left manydubious. When he was only 23 Ligue 1 matches in the legs with Lens, a Northern embarked on a risky joining a club of this caliber, with its workforce XXL and a coach, Jose Mourinho, not necessarily known for his patience. Would not it have been better for him to climb the ladder more slowly by signing the Paris SG example?One of the MarcaWhile it is still too early to draw a definitive assessment and that what remains to be done is enormous, Varane has certainly not missed his debut with the club merengue. After making the front page of Marca, the leading daily pro-Madrid, after only a few practices, the young defender is well past lights up a gear in the space of four days and two tenure in the league. Taking advantage of the absence of Pepe, shot in the thigh, the French earned his stripes in ownership last Wednesday on the grounds of Racing Santander. And even if Real had to settle for a poor draw (0-0), lizards, he has managed the game very seriously and applied as to be given by the press the best Iberian evaluation of his own. To believe that he was already a regular at the White House ... Unless this is only beginner's luck?A pigeon's wing in historyThis is great, Saturday night, was still not restored Pepe and Ricardo Carvalho joined him in the hospital after the head injury he suffered in Santander. Therefore, Varane tasted with delight in his second tenure at face Rayo Vallecano. After a minute of play, the visitors broke the deadlock and the nightmare Madrid (a point made in the last two games) looked set to continue. But Ronaldo was responsible for his own hand in the direction of travel. The advantage of Merengue remains fragile 25 minutes from the end (3-2). Varane therefore chose that moment to enter the club's history by becoming the youngest foreign player to enter the Real goal. And for what purpose, on one occasion Air heel following a corner taken by Ozil. A marvel, which earned him the praise of Marca: "Varane has once again demonstrated his talent and value. And fans will long remember his goal. "Northerner Knights at the Bernabeu?It has been said, it is still too early to tell. What is certain however is that Raul Albiol is no longer the odor of sanctity with Mourinho and with such a week Varane becomes clear number three in central defense, behind the tandem-Portuguese Pepe Carvalho. And since neither one nor the other are "unbreakable" (between them they missed 17 games last season in the Premier League only), the French would still have the opportunity to demonstrate the talent and insurance do not expect necessarily the number of years. As for the France team, one thing at a time ...

dimanche 25 septembre 2011

We can still advance

Daniel Congré
Unbeaten since the fourth day, Toulouse is positioned securely in the first part of the championship table. After the victory against Nancy (1-0), central defender Daniel Congre said the group was high-Garonne arriving at maturity.
Daniel, after any goal conceded in late on Wednesday in St-Etienne (1-1), it was important to rectify the situation by winning against Nancy ...Daniel Congre: Wednesday, we all returned to Toulouse with a sense of duty unfulfilled. It was absolutely necessary to catch up at the Stadium against Nancy, who is going through a difficult period right now. We knew they were going to play down all together and we had problems we create chances. Returning from the break, the situation has unlocked by Bulut. His decisive goal allows us to improve this point obtained in the cauldron in midweek. It's always good to take.
What was the key to this meeting?Daniel Congre: Do not criticize everything overall. Our service has been quite successful. Behind it was shown the strength. Offensively, they were embarrassed by getting more pace. Insisting on the sides has created the danger. The purpose of the action comes from elsewhere on a center from the left from Tabanou.
Toulouse is now third, level on points with PSG and Lyon. Is this still anecdotal mention of the classification within the TFC?Daniel Congre: I do not know how it is. Frankly, after eight days of the championship, it is useless to talk about that, of us obsess about the rankings. For now, it means nothing. First I want to emphasize the notion of pleasure. Efforts to make progress every day. The results we get, we owe to ourselves.
With 17 points in eight days, an average of more than two points per game, one is obliged to mention some other ambitions as the maintenance for TFC ...Daniel Congre: We know that this year, the means were used to make it a great season. For now, it's going very well, but the problem in these cases, it is devolution. We fight every day against it, with maximum professionalism in our approach to matches. This is the recipe for staying on top of the standings. We will not be choosy and will continue to work well. Our group has significant room for improvement still.
Your agreement with the newcomer Aymen Abdennour seems quite promising in central defense. Are you surprised by adapting so fast?Daniel Congre: Yes, it's going really well. He has successfully negotiated the change in the Tunisian league and Ligue 1. Despite a brief spell at Werder, Germany, he came here in a little obvious. It is a very powerful player, hard enough on people. Our agreement is improving day by day. We will go on and try to rev up over the days.

Quickly correct our mistakes

Rio Mavuba Lille
As against Sochaux, Lille conceded the draw at home late in the game against Lorient (1-1). Rio Mavuba, the captain of the LOSC, remains confident before moving to Trabzonspor in the Champions League.
How do you explain the mismanagement of your end game?Rio Mavuba: It's a shame to take this goal. We have almost never been in danger, and I think we had pretty well run the score so far. We decided not to play too behind to avoid being put at risk as against Moscow in the Champions League. The three points were not stolen because Lorient did not put at risk before that free-kick.
This scenario is not likely there not to weaken the team psychologically?Rio Mavuba: I do not think, because our group is always going forward. Tonight (Editor's note: Saturday night), we prefer to retain the content of our game. Once again, the game is played on the details. I hope these experiences will serve us in our next game, Tuesday in Turkey, and the rest of the championship. To us to correct the small errors as soon as possible. Tonight, everyone was smashed, and the result is disappointing. We feel a lot of frustration.
This series of disappointing results you worried about it?Rio Mavuba: No, because the scenario was different each time. Tonight, by managing the latter set-piece, we would have won logically, and nobody would have challenged our victory. We will not dwell on these meetings, but we must quickly correct our mistakes.
Your team did doubt in the second half?Rio Mavuba: We especially suffered physically. Some players enslave a lot of games on offense, and more about this game Ludovic Obraniak injured ankle. The coach also had to make some changes that were not anticipated. This is why we left the ball a little more in Lorient late in the game.
This match came at the wrong time it for you?Rio Mavuba: No, we would have won. We did not plan to lose two points late in the game. It's complicated right now. We let slip a lot of points especially at home. It will soon have to make up for that.
Interview by Franck Deflandre, our correspondent in Lille
The eighth day of Ligue 1 in pictures:
Diapo

affected but not cast

«Touché mais pas coulé»
Expelled just before half-time during the defeat to Caen (2-4), while still leading his team to score, the defender Aldo Angoula Haute-Savoie explained this turn of the game.

How did you react after the first goal conceded quickly?
Aldo Angoula: It puts us a blow behind the head at the same time that we wake up. Next, we reacted by scoring twice and then the match swung late in the first half. This is a meeting that should serve for the remainder but tonight (Editor's note: Saturday night), it does not point, it's annoying.

How did you feel about your expulsion?
Aldo Angoula: For me it is an injustice even if the referee can make mistakes. From the moment I see him put his hand to the pocket, I know he will kick me out so I have nothing more to say. These are two warnings on air duels identical, exactly the same place on the ground. This is perhaps the first time it happens, I will enter the record books!

Do you consider whether it is the turn of the game?
Aldo Angoula: Expulsion yes, but mainly for the purpose in the wake due to the fault. Unfortunately, I miss the next match in Nancy, but also the next home if I take two-match suspension.

Evian-Thonon-Gaillard is it hit after the second consecutive defeat?
Aldo Angoula: The team is affected yes, but not pouring! We will try to use what happened for the next home games.

Collectively, what we will have to do to rebound?
Aldo Angoula: In difficult times, it is solidarity. Already last year, for the rise in Ligue 1, we had to. There have been some changes in the workforce but the soul of the team is intact.

Zapping The Sport of the weekend (18-09-2011)

Zapping The Sport of the weekend (18-09-2011) - YouTube
The program of zapping sport, all the images of sports this weekend
busy! And of course, the terrible confrontation with Spain

The realism of Paris

Le réalisme de Paris
Although battered in the first period, the Paris SG was able to win the set on the lawn of Montpellier (0-3). Defeated, the club Hérault is dislodged from his seat as leader by his winning the night level on points with Lyon.
Montpellier-Paris SG 0-3Paris SG: Gameiro (39th), Pastore (43rd, 80th)
Winner on the lawn of Montpellier (0-3), the Paris SG has overcome its shortcomings when to assert in his first major event of the season. A result that puts together a powerful brake to MHSC, relegated to fourth place and will long regret their missed opportunities. For, during the first period, Herault Ile torturing a rearguard far from serene. Sirigu should also work miracles to prevent Utaka Giroud and quickly open the brand (the third). Heckled, PSG then relied on his few brilliant shots. And did fly. Following an overflow Nene left, Gameiro needed in the heart of the opposing defense to deceive Jourdren (0-1, 39th). Almost in the process, Pastore signed a sumptuous volley in the six meters up opponents to double (0-2, 43).
These two goals against the run of play put Paris in orbit. The success was going to leave men Antoine Kombouare, just happy to see Giroud miss the opportunity to reduce the score before the break (45th one) and then stumble again in the second period Sirigu (52). Entries set S. Cabella and Camara did not allow the MHSC, sterile ruler, back in the game. Without making a big impression, PSG was able to master about it all the way to take its first significant victory of the season. Successfully completed by Pastore who took advantage of hesitation in adding spice to Jourdren (0-3, 80th). The evening turned into a nightmare and now the ex-leader of a league, not spoiled by arbitration in being denied a goal yet valid Giroud (90th). After an unconvincing start to the season, Montpellier fell back sharply on earth. And now leaves his chair to his leadership won the night level on points with Lyon. All this for a week of shock PSG-Lyon ...
Players of the matchOnce again, Javier Pastore was the display of his talent with a keen sense of the pass and a clean finish. The Argentinian has not been slow to adapt to his new team. The same can be said for Salvatore Sirigu that still saved his team several times, including two passing parade remarkable start to the game. The two former players of Palermo are already required to eleven Paris.
We did not likeIt's a small miracle if the PSG was able to keep a clean sheet as it moves. Car Diego Lugano and Zoumana Camara still experienced great difficulties in consolidating a very feverish defense of Paris. The Uruguayan, often late face Giroud, is not the defensive leader expected by Leonardo. While Camara has distinguished himself in the negative sense, in committing a big mistake in the first period on Belhanda. Only a yellow card warning, he would not have been shocking to see the defender to receive a different color.
Results of the eighth day:Saturday, September 24Evian TG-Caen 2-4Lille Lorient 1-1Lyon-Bordeaux 3-1Nice-Dijon 1-1Nancy 1-0 ToulouseValenciennes-Marseille 1-1Montpellier-Paris SG 0-3
Sunday, September 255:00 p.m.Sochaux-AuxerreBrest-Ajaccio
9:00 p.m.Rennes-Saint-Etienne
The eighth day in pictures (click image to access the slideshow):

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samedi 24 septembre 2011

Rugby is a sport of it right?

Contrary to what some would have us believe, no. It is no more left.
Un Néo-Zélandais lors de la commémoration, le 20 septembre, du premier match de
After receiving a drubbing to have only speculated that the Rugby World Cup drew perhaps the line for 45 days as what the world of rugby can be as likely as a table Night New Zealand - New risk-taking because of the issue raised by the editor of Slate and that I started with the cowardice of the one you made a pass in the back: Is rugby Right?
Looking like Ben ... and especially do not boot into touch!
The burning question arose from the assertion of another contributor to Slate, ulcerated reading an article of a special envoy of the BBC in New Zealand which was not gone dead hand on her blog. "This is proof that rugby is a sport right," says my colleague from Slate also returned after plating.
Lent this text, it is true, at least to smile as he was shocked and a bit snobbish. Extracts from this lyrical titled "beds Insider":
"Rugby is an elite sport. Of the heart. The nobility of soul. Old-fashioned values, more Cyrano de Bergerac - his freedom, his panache, his generosity - that Octave Parango and all these modern icons, hateful incarnations of cynicism and bling-bling. Rugby loses to accept the first came to his banquet. A prostitute bait barge with its single head hairy gondola. "Pleasing everyone is to please anyone," Sacha Guitry had understood ... "
Or further:
"The low ceiling fans of football as a medal exhibit the universality of their sport, sneer at the small number of countries followers of rugby. Let them know once and for all that it is our pride not to be accessible to first come through our rules so complex. Obviously football is universal. There is no more simplistic, with its single most stupid rule to assimilate that of offside when the rugby requires time and intelligence to be tamed. But after that, what a privilege! "
Indeed, they are clearly on the right lines as they equate to an elite rugby after a nobility that would reject the first Chabal came (too popular to be honest) and did not mix, or do not want to compromise with the common people who in any case does not understand anything and it would look with all his top with a sort of sovereign contempt.
The white knight against the bumpkins footballFor some supporters of rugby, there is, indeed, still this idea a little retrograde and patronizing that rugby players form a gentry or aristocracy of white knights face, for example, those bumpkins of soccer players who have all the defects of the earth . That rugby players are the singers of a royal "epic" (LOL lyrical formula often repeated over time by generations of colleagues) when the players would now only rough uncultivated able one day to mount the barricades Knysna and a bus for fun to make their ridiculous little May 68 in South Africa.
This is a somewhat "extreme" to consider the rugby even if we know that the rugby union, sport imported, is historically linked to the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie in Britain. For the "rightward" and a little exaggeration, one can also note that it is popular with business leaders-normal, it is practiced in high schools as opposed to football. One can also note that goes well with golf for many years. Many rugby players are golfers, right sport if any, and what are the two sports in which Societe Generale has set his sights on sponsorship.
This kinship rugby golf is also found for decades in the newspaper where both Team sports were treated regularly by the same heads of sections and the same feathers as if they were blood brothers (blue).
The myth of the valuesAfter Denis Lalanne, a brilliant chronicler of rugby and golf (and tennis), Pierre-Michel Bonnot has taken up the torch of this double cover.
In a very good article, published last year in L'Equipe Magazine, Laurent Telo, specialist rugby, had dismantled the legend of rugby heroic, chivalrous and untouchable in a paper entitled "Rugby, the ball of values" and in which he cut to pieces the myth to highlight the mythology related to a sport much more noble than other disciplines.
Pierre Villepreux, coach who was part of the framework of the XV of France, in particular liked to say that "rugby will never be a professor of moral values ​​because it will never be stronger than human nature and that they do not preserve anything. "Bénézech Laurent, a former Blue, it evoked the memory of his side's tragic murder by his wife of Marc Cécillon. "My first reaction was to tell me that these so-called values ​​that have kept Mark's alcoholism. An entire city, rather than tell him to stop drinking, tapped him on the shoulder and handed him a tour. "
In summary, rugby and his most zealous admirers would not virtuous to give lessons to anyone. The courage, camaraderie, solidarity, team spirit, sharing, among the values ​​assigned to the sport certainly difficult (than football), did not deserve to be the exclusive turf. The rugby union would also have its weaknesses, its dark side and little acts of cowardice which would fall on earth and to be more of people than some believe. And this is so that the cursor would move toward the left.
The southwest crucible rugby and radical socialismThis would also be logical at least geographically as the Southwest, the crucible of radical socialism and rugby, has remained through the time of election an oasis from the left. Historically, Toulouse, the capital of rugby, has nearly always had the heart to the left-that is where the PS even likes to finish his campaign-Landes and never gave the feeling of having some affection for the right.
Looking at the list of Top 14 teams, one must admit that the left is very well represented with cities as emblematic for her Toulouse, Clermont-Ferrand, Montpellier, Paris, Lyon. At least the rugby public would lean left and it has long been in areas where they are not the priests who learned the game of rugby to children, but teachers often secular and socialist.
Remember also that it is a leftist president, François Mitterrand, who was the first to attend the final of rugby league in France in 1981, while all his predecessors on the right, present at the final of the Coupe de France Football since 1927, had always snubbed the event.
"Rugby is the control of violence by law. The problem is whether violence is more right or left. History teaches us that matter there is a draw. "So said Jean Lacouture, who refused to settle in the Express in 2007. Difficult indeed to get an opinion as the values ​​of right and left, sieved speeches of politicians, now appear to be confused often in total disarray.
Former coach XV of France, Bernard Laporte, who has put up posters for the Socialist Party in his youth and has campaigned ardently for François Mitterrand in 1981 along with his working-class parents, has finished in the Secretary of State government François Fillon and sings today urbi et orbi the virtues of Nicolas Sarkozy, while saying he could be part of a future left-wing government.