world cup rugby-hooray for England

[rubytuesday]

Originally Posted by tuigirl

There ya go Ruby, you got your wish, it'll be a cracking final, those Springboks sure look ready to go..very impressive match, last night and esp that winger who took off half way up the field. I must say, I'm not fanatical enough about rugby to get into some sort of arguement about it, I just enjoy a good sporting match, so Stew, I hope you enjoy it no matter which team is the "greatest"...As for hatred of the French ...I don't HATE them, I just don't care for them particularly as a nation (15 years of living there sorted that out for me), BUT...I do like some of their food/countryside and some of their family values, as with alot of European countries esp towards the elderly, are somewhat better than I've seen in other countries elsewhere (not that I'm elderly myself !!...not yet anyway )
Anyway, looking forward to a riveting final (apparantly 12 million Brits, watched the last 5 mins of the match on Sat according to the web!!)

Just curious what it is about France that you don't like in particular.