re: re france's-well done - a must read ......and yes snooker, as Mark Twain also said in an article on the bad treatment of the Jews ( I paraphrase from your great post 06/03 03 09:50).
"I am quite sure that ( bar one) I have no race predjudices" .......................Mark Twains article goes on a number of lines and then the punch line.
"The treatment of the Jews is,un-American,
un-English,it is french".
