From ESPN:

France team director resigns

KNYSNA, South Africa -- A day after a player was sent home for insulting the coach, France team director Jean-Louis Valentin said the World Cup team is refusing to train following a dispute on the practice field.

Valentin also said he has resigned from the French football federation, saying he was fed up.

"It's a scandal for the French, for the young people here. It's a scandal for the federation and the French team," Valentin said. "They don't want to train. It's unacceptable.

"As for me, it's over. I'm leaving the federation. I'm sickened and disgusted," said Valentin, who walked away from the training field, got into a car and drove off.

The latest chaotic scene follows Saturday's trouble when striker Nicolas Anelka was banished for insulting coach Raymond Domenech, whose tactics and management skills have been called into question.

The team arrived at training Sunday, but a few minutes after taking the field, fitness coach Robert Duverne stormed away following an argument with Domenech. Duverne threw his accreditation badge to the ground after a heated discussion and walked away.

The players then boarded the team bus.

Raymond Domenech should have been fired over a year ago. This is a fitting end for the "lame duck" coach. He has destroyed the team.

It is a glorious disaster for FFF supporters but nothing that a baguette, some wine, and a cigarette can't cure.

2. LOL! (was wondering when you'd show up)

This disaster has been building ever since the 2008 European Championship. The head coach is hated in France. Coming into this tournament he was already out of contract and his replacement had already been selected. He ruined the team and the accusation is already flying that he did it on purpose as a parting shot.

The best thing that could happen right now is for the team to go find a field near the hotel and organize their own practice without the coaching staff. Thierry Henry could run the practice.

The good thing is that England is almost as screwed up and Italy and England could still win the award for biggest flop. The French flop was highly expected.

Degaulle Is rolling in his Grave v!

I read somewhere that Domenech would not permit smoking during practice.

OR Drinking ! Sacrilege !

Havret, PUT IT IN THE HOLE!

karma is a bitch

Le Outrage!

We'll probably have to send in military "advisers" to go clean up the mess, too.

Or give them money!^^

Load them up on an air france jet and let their over rated asses go home.

Havret finishes second!

BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa -- France coach Raymond Domenech said his players acted like imbeciles by protesting Nicolas Anelka's expulsion from the team by refusing to train just two days before the match that decides their World Cup future.

"I tried to convince them that what they were doing was an aberration, an imbecility, a stupidity without name," Domenech said Monday.

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The last time they went off the rails they named a national holiday after it!

Bastille Day.

Don't rattle the stick in the hornet's nest.

I'm just waiting for a player to actually choke Raymond Domenech during today's game. It could happen.

Today's lineup card should be interesting if not incredibly controversial.

Cheaters!