C’est fou !

Football - the definition for the same may be quite simple but it

certainly does have lots of colors. It is a mutli-billion dollar

business from sporting to TV companies. For some it is as close to their

religion. People can fight or hug with a complete stranger while

ignoring his family or close one when there is a match.

As we live in Europe it is very hard to escape it. You personally can

like it or hate it but you can not avoid it here. The French team as

they are known as “les blue” - the blue. Since their jersey is blue but

ironically it is a team of blue color people. It is one the place you

will find people who do not have “de” or “sharp nose” and still can be a

national hero. As there are very few from the same color people in

French television serial or successful business man or high civil

servant or elite to say in short to be in news. Although these are my

personal views and I do not have many French contacts so my observation

might be wrong.

Any way, yesterday we were discussing about the possible outcome of the

last two quarter finals of this Football world cup 2006. The worst

scenario for French would have been beaten by Brazil and England wining

their respective match against Portugal. The “so so” situation would be

still loosing to Brazil but England also lost their match. As at least

they can face their worst neighbors “les anglais”.

According to me, Simple Fête would have been that French and England win

and they both play Semi-Final. Reason - what happens in the Semis if

they got beaten by “les anglais”? But voila! it turned out to be a

“DOUBLE Fête” as French won and England lost. The whole France went

crazy celebrating the result.