FEELING BLEU
Chaos Theory suggests that if a butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian rainforest, it can change the weather half a world away, so with the France international football team in something of a state of disharmony, it seemed fitting that Didier Deschamps’ press conference ahead of his side’s Nations League match against Belgium this evening was interrupted by a winged insect from the lepidopteran suborder Rhopalocera flapping beside his head. “This is an example of the countryside,” observed the France head coach, prompting the kind of overzealous and forced laughter you only hear at such events. “The Neuilly countryside,” he added, referring to the area west of Paris in which his squad were cloistered before their trip to Brussels.
