Cameroon coach Paul Le Guen still has work to do, after his side were denied a place in the semi-finals by a team not going to the World Cup - namely the eventual champions Egypt.

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The French have taken to using le fair-play in sport, presumably because (as their coach's refusal to shake hands with his opposite number after losing to South Africa suggested) their own culture finds the concept rather difficult.

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Both Ribery and Benzema are expected to play when France takes on Uruguay in a friendly in the French city of Le Havre on Wednesday evening - the team's first match under new coach Didier Deschamps.

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The England coach did hold out a measure of hope for Gascoigne, as well as Matthew Le Tissier, by assuring them that the international door "is not shut" to them yet.

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