Laurent Blanc’s Les Blues came into this game with improved labels. Yet, despite the number of high profile and very skillful athletes in the squad, this flavorless performance justified anything but their potential threat to title contenders Spain and Germany in the coming rounds. Holding the English and…

“Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.” – Jules Renard, a notable French author of the late eighteenth, early nineteenth century. This is the quote of the year that…