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As they did with Wright Armstrong and Southgate before him

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As they did with Wright, Armstrong and Southgate before him. It is precisely this sort of uneducated fan that forces clubs such as Palace to get "ideas above their station" and leads them into financial difficulties. pounds 4m for a player who hasn't played international football, and is hardly setting the First Division alight this season, is a vastly inflated figure and Palace were well advised to take the money and run. Clubs such as Palace cannot hope to hang on to genuinely good players although how Jansen can be described as such after only half a season in the top flight is beyond me. As for her comment about being "long suffering", long suffering is supporting Brighton or Hull City or any one of a dozen clubs struggling to survive in the lower reaches of the Football League. Sir: I read with incredulity Ms Sue Donato's letter about the "crisis" at Crystal Palace (13 January).

The Eagles are a club with a notoriously fickle following who realistically cannot hope to support a premiership side on their attendances. With my mentality, it would have been better for me." Ginola shrugs. "In France against Bulgaria, there were 11 of us playing, but it was my fault." I say that I was told not to mention France v Bulgaria He smiles "It is OK now," he says.. He has, after all, other job options, as an anti-landmines campaigner, a model for L'Oreal shampoo, not to mention broadcasting There is a long pause, "I don't know I don't think I will be a manager I don't think I will be able to compromise with players But you never know I have had some film scripts I have had one from [the great Spanish director] Almodovar So maybe I will try that."You know, my boy is seven He is not bad at football but he is better at golf I will encourage him to be in an individual sport That way, you win as yourself, you lose as yourself. Why? WHY?"I have no answer to the considerable conundrum of why Ginola and before him Eric Cantona were ditched by France, and I dare not bring up ze Houllier episode.

Instead, I ask whether he will stay in football when he retires as a player. After the game, I was at the top of the stadium with Gary Lineker and Ally McCoist, and I was very quiet. They said there was a BBC party, but I went back to my hotel and stayed there Everyone was outside enjoying themselves I was in my room watching TV It was awful. I don't think so." Obviously he was overjoyed, I say, when France won the World Cup, but was his happiness tempered with regret that he was not part of the team? That, at any rate, is my intended question, but Ginola interrupts."What? Overjoyed? No, it was awful Awful They stole my dream. Absurd as it seem now, only Gerry Francis at Spurs was prepared to meet Newcastle's pounds 2m asking price.This season, Ginola has been playing so well he is an early contender for the Player of the Year award. And yet he dismisses his chances of getting back into the French team "It is a young team.

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