Mathieu Dujardin

[Yannou 😎🦇🇵🇸 @ElDiscretojr22]

Désolé hein mais envoyez un arbitre OUZBEK arbitrer à ce niveau xptdr n'abusons pas du WOKISME !

[Cult Ballers | World Cup @thecultballers]

The Cursed Generation of France football.🇫🇷

Platini's generation won Euro 1984 and reached two World Cup semi-finals.

Zidane's generation won the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000.

In between, Eric Cantona, David Ginola and Ballon d'Or winner Jean-Pierre Papin failed to qualify for the 1990 and 1994 World Cup finals.

An entire generation of genuine world-class players produced almost nothing at all. French football itself has a name for this stretch, 1984 to 1998: the cursed generation.

Papin scored 30 goals in 54 caps for France. He was the league's top scorer in France for five consecutive seasons, won the Ballon d'Or in 1991 while playing for Marseille, the only player ever to win it from a French club.

Cantona was widely regarded as more naturally gifted than either Platini or Zidane.

Ginola was elegant, unpredictable, the kind of winger defenders simply couldn't plan for.

All three were at their peak at exactly the wrong moments in history.

Cantona's international career imploded largely by his own hand. In 1988, dropped from the squad, he went on television and called national coach Henri Michel "a bag of shit."

He was banned from the team for a year. Michel was sacked soon after, having failed to qualify for the 1990 World Cup, and Michel Platini, the new coach, recalled Cantona immediately.

It didn't matter. By the next time France had a real chance to qualify, in 1994, the chaos around Cantona's career, club suspensions, a thrown shirt, a kicked ball into a crowd, meant he was never fully settled into the side that came so close.

That 1994 campaign produced the single cruellest passage of football this generation ever lived through.

The very last qualification match. France against Bulgaria, at home, needing only a draw. Cantona put them 1-0 up in the 32nd minute. Bulgaria equalised five minutes later. The score stayed level deep into stoppage time, France seconds from the World Cup.

David Ginola, on as a substitute, won possession deep in Bulgarian territory with the clock almost out. All he needed to do was shield the ball into the corner and let the seconds disappear. Instead he hit a loose, overhit cross toward Cantona that never had a chance of reaching him.

A Bulgarian defender collected it. Sixteen seconds later, Emil Kostadinov scored at the other end. France out.

Houllier went on television that same night and called Ginola "an Exocet missile through the heart of French football." The French press branded him the assassin of the national team. He carried that label out of the country entirely, moving to England within two years and never really looking back.

Off the pitch, the era had its own dark comedy. A satirical puppet show called Les Guignols de l'Info had spent years mocking Papin as a lovable idiot obsessed with nothing but scoring goals. When his form genuinely dipped during a difficult spell in Italy, the same show ran a sketch in which God himself appears and begs Papin to come home, because, the show insisted, "France needs you."

It was a joke built entirely on how much this generation's failures had become part of the national conversation, season after season, tournament after tournament.

By 1998, France finally got it right, on home soil, with a different generation built around Zidane, Deschamps, Thuram and Henry.

Papin's prime had already passed. Cantona had already retired, a year earlier, at 30, choosing acting and silence over one more attempt. Ginola wasn't selected at all, watching former teammates lift the trophy from the outside.

Three of the most gifted footballers France has ever produced. A combined World Cup record between them that adds up to almost nothing.

The cursed generation never got its tournament. Some curses just don't lift in time.🇫🇷

[Axel @Axel_OM_]

énorme travail de Dembélé qui est encore décisif avec les bleus en criant "tire !" à Mbappé avant la frappe

[Gabriel Lattanzio @GabLattanzio]

Pas une personne de moins de 50 ans dans la salle, et ils s'opposent à des investissements d'avenir auxquels ils ne comprennent rien. Ils ne réfléchissent pas plus loin que leur mort. Génération sabotage.

[Messiah Yaniss 🇨🇵🇩🇿🇸🇳 @MessiahYaniss16]

Dembele a joué :

- Euro 2016.
- Coupe du monde 2018.
- Euro 2021.
- Coupe du monde 2022.
- Euro 2024.
- Coupe du monde 2026.

0 BUT.

[Olympiste Lyonniste🌟🇫🇷 @tzct74]

Vous comprenez, ils ont trop soufferts

[Shavinz @ShavinzCS]

Te fatigue pas, on a la télé hein

[🇲🇦 @SxfixneS]

Voir des gens qui n’ont pas regardé 10 minutes de foot cette année être plus heureux que moi c’est le coup de grâce

[𝑵𝑨𝑴𝑺 🇨🇮 @nvmsszo]

EH WEEEE C’EST NOUSSSS

[Josh Hart @joshhart]

You couldn’t teach the type of Hate Watch I’m on today

[Axel @Axel_OM_]

j'ai beau être français, comment ne pas encourager les gunners quand t'apprend un truc comme ça

[Le Phrygien @Le_Phrygien]

🧵 LE MYTHE DU DÉCLIN DE L’ÉTAT : 40 ANS DE FONCTIONNARISATION FRANÇAISE

On entend souvent que l’État « se retire ».
Que le privé « prend le relais ».
Que les fonctionnaires « stagnent » voire « disparaissent ».

Mais que disent les chiffres ? 👇

[Antonin Ferreira Roche @Antonin_FR_]

10 jours de dépense de retraite pour 14 000 emplois garantis pour 15 ans.

La meilleure illustration entre l’investissement (on crée de la richesse) et la dépense sociale (on fait des transferts négatifs) imaginable.

[Catherine Warr @HiddenYorkshire]

sometimes when i'm feeling stressed out i make a list of actionable steps and imagine mike ehrmantrout saying "this is what you're going to do"

[L'Équipe @lequipe]

L'OM a encaissé huit buts cette saison dans les cinq dernières minutes d'un match, leur faisant perdre dix points au total toutes compétitions confondues. Il s'agit du plus haut total en Europe.
➡️ https://t.co/LVxZyinfaH

[Media Bayern France @MediaBayernFR]

L’OM est le club le plus pitoyable de tous les temps wow

[Guillaume Dacquet @GuilDcqt]

J’attendais rien du match j’étais IMMUNISÉ et ils ont réussit à me ruiner ma vie

[Lino Treize @LinoTreize]

Il faut déchirer le contrat d’Aubameyang c’est l’erreur de trop (la 89eme de la saison)

[Guillaume Tarpi @GuillaumeTarpi]

Allez adieu
Pierre- Emerick on va parler un peu