The despondency of French football fans, not
to say the whole French nation, recalls the lyrics of the song Stormy
Blues:
I’ve
been down so long
That
down don’t worry me.
I
just sit and wonder
Where
my man can be.
Every
time I come here
Everything
happens to me.
The
events leading up to France’s final defeat could indeed be characterized as stormy and the team’s mood as blue.
Billie Holiday, who made this song famous, was not referring to Nicolas Anelka when she wondered where her man could be, but the words of her song must reflect the thoughts going through the minds of the French soccer squad.
Frank Sinatra picks up the theme in Learning the Blues, with a prediction
for the French players.:
The blues will taunt you constantly.
When you're out in a crowd,
The blues will haunt your memory.
The nights when you don't sleep, the whole night you're crying.
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When you feel your heart break, you're learnin' the blues.
As for the dismissed French
captain, he could be singing Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen:
The rest of the world is
probably just looking on and thinking, in the (ungrammatical) words of jazz
singer, Fats Domino: Ain’t
That a Shame,
You made me cry when you said goodbye
Ain't that a shame?
My tears fell like rain
Ain't that a shame?
You're the one to blame
Every time that I look in the mirror
All these lines on my face getting clearer
The past is gone
It went by, like dusk to dawn
Isn't that the way
Everybody's got their dues in life to pay
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I know it's everybody's sin
You got to lose to know how to win
The incoming coach, Laurent Blanc, will be singing the words of Land of Hopes and Dreams:
I will provide for you
And I'll stand by your side
You'll need a good companion for
This part of the ride
Leave behind your sorrows
Let this day be the last
Tomorrow there'll be sunshine
A la cité des Tarterêts: "C'est la France que les Bleus représentent, pas la banlieue"
24.06.10 | 13h07 • Mis à jour le 24.06.10 | 14h07
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