Have you ever experienced the sweetness of the Tyrrhenian coves in southern Tuscany?
Every morning, in harmonious embraces, houses and boats caress the elegant blue of Mr Neptune's gaming table carpet.
It's an elegant and brilliant blue.
It vaguely reminds me of Saint-Tropez.
We're all Mediterranean anyway.
If I were on a terrace in Talamone or right in Saint Tropez, I would want to have a long discussion with Jacques Chirac.
Did you know that our very own guest in a 1976 Asterix album was drawn as an economic advisor to Julius Caesar Strange, this representation particularly for a French leader.
I'll slip into this anomaly and before a calvados after lunch, I'd ask him what Europe could become.
Everyone thinks of an economic or institutional Europe, perhaps military, but what if we started with a footballing one?
It would be a real popular find.
Many would say no, they'd cry sacrilege, yet Chirac, authentically Parisian, advised the authentically Roman Julius Caesar.
Fantasy?
Fantasy is a gift for visionary politics, perhaps prophetic.
The politics that is missing today.
It seems that at this historical stage, despite being characterised by a widespread and evident prosperity, everyone is aiming to lower the level of expression.
As if the two things were linked, but alternatives.
A red herring, in my opinion.
An almost superstitious alternation.
The ongoing Football World Cup , in my opinion, expresses this decay, from a social discount.
In 1989, Bologna signed a German centre-forward who was nicknamed 'Klisman's deputy':
He was never truly anyone's deputy; he didn't go to the ’90 World Cup with his Germany. With Bologna, he scored six goals in two seasons with over fifty appearances in Serie A.
Well, it springs to mind because it seems to me to be the inspiration for many centre-forwards seen so far at this World Cup.
It reminds me, for example, of the Canadian who plays in attack for Juventus.
I return to Saint-Tropez and ask for another Calvados, but it's evening, and the final is about to begin.
(Sumerian writer)
