France vs England
Hands up! Who cares about football games like this?
Well, the betting odds may make them more appealing.
There’s an attractiveness on all the options: 1X2 France @ 1.98; 1X2 England @ 3.70 and 1X2 draw @ 3.30.
Yet, on June 13, do these nations really want to be facing each other in an international friendly?
If you ask them, players will always speak about the pride of being capped by their country, but deep down will they really want to be in the Stade de France in mid-June?
What of Paul Pogba or teenager Marcus Rashford of Manchester United who have just completed a season which contained a mammoth 64 games. Both figured prominently.
What of another talented teenager, Kylian Mbappe, who shone in many of Monaco’s 63 competitive outings?
What of Alexandre Lacazette of Lyon who had to face 55 matches over the course of the campaign?
Do any of these guys really need to be involved in a friendly when they should be resting up ahead of another arduous campaign?
And before someone says they earn enough, that misses the point entirely.
Whether you are earning £200 a week or £200,000 a week, athletes do need some recuperation.
On saying all of that, it’s rare that matches between Les Bleus and the Three Lions aren’t exciting.
After France’s last-gasp qualifying defeat in Sweden and England’s last-gasp qualifying equaliser against the ‘auld enemy’ in Scotland, what could be much changed sides will no doubt produce a competitive encounter.
An attacking contest too, given England have scored in 10 of their last 14 games away from home, while France have conceded in five of their last eight home matches.
There’s no reason to hold back in a friendly either, so perhaps I was wrong after all.
Perhaps I should be more positive than cynic.
Let me ask again.
Hands up this time if you do care about a football games like this?!
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