Hurricane Type Winds Knock My Power Out/ Denmark Knocks Out Cameroon/ and Mon Dieu, Those Frenchies!

It's short and sweet today as we Hoosiers are recovering from one heck of a summer thunderstorm. Who has heard of 90 mile an hour winds in Northwest Indiana? This was the closest to hurricane type winds experienced in the Midwest. No tornadoes, thankfully, but the damage seems the same. I still have no electricity after two days but luckily, the parental units do, and I am taking advantage of their hospitality. Thankfully, I am back to watching World Cup games (muted at times in order to allow the rest of the household to have decent conversations) and, of course, back to blogging.

Arsenal news is that Song is the first to go home after Denmark sent Camaroon packing with a 2-1 defeat. Song got to play the whole game, looks to me uninjured, and now gets to rest up for the start of our season. Hope he's not too disappointed. On the bright side, Bendy scored for Denmark and seems to be recovering from a pesky niggly injury.

Other news - rather scandalous - are the goings on in the French squad. By now you probably all know that Anelka left the game at half-time after spatting with Domenech saw him dropped for the second half. He has since retired from international football. He left the Cup! To further add fuel to the fire, the whole team walked out of training in protest of Anelka's exclusion, Capatain Evra leading the way by arguing with the training coach. The French squad, instead of leaving the grounds totally, did sign autographs for the fans that showed up for training, not wanting to disappoint. They also put out a statement about not wanting to let the fans down. That's not the end of the story as French team director Jean-Louis Valentin has decided to return to France and resign. Quite the hullabaloo, eh? Farcical even. Although the French squad claims to have the fans' feelings in mind, those who have spent time and money to travel to South Africa and root on their Les Bleus squad may be rueing their vacation plans and embarrassed to boot. Basically I think there are too many egos from the players and signs of insanity from the coach. That's quite a cocktail.

I guess that's it for now. Back to cleaning up the yard and chainsawing ripped off tree limbs...not kidding. Tomorrow I'll have Part III of the US Player Breakdown. Until then...