Hindsight is one of those great things in life; that opportunity to reflect on events with a clearer state of mind mind, to see where things went wrong, how you would do things differently next time, or whether you should have been in that situation in the first place.
If 23 Frenchmen and one astrology-obsessed manager looked back at the two chaotic weeks spent in South Africa this summer with hindsight, they probably would have joined Shay Given and the entire Republic of Ireland team in remonstrating with the referee over Thierry Henry’s handball antics on that night back in November.
Sparky in Rotterdam '91 