"I refuse to admit defeat to these Rosbifs". That was
how Jean-Michel Aulas, chairman of Olympique Lionnais, appealed to his
footballers' pride before the second leg of the Europa League tie opposing the
French club to Tottenham Hotspur from London. I write this before the match
because it is not its result that matters but the old-style derogatory name
used by the French businessman for the English. It reminds me of the Fourties, when
the Germans were the Krauts, the French the Frogs (because they actually eat
them) and the British the Roastbeefs. I used these names in my novel partially
set during WW2 to make it sound realistic, but to hear that in 2013 is just
weird. Unless Mr Aulas is really nostalgic of the times when the Roastbeefs
died by the thousands to free his country.
In the picture below, the British
War Cemetery in Ranville, Normandy.
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