Hardly a World Cup game goes by where someone is not speaking of the French team's melt down. This team was so full of promise and bravado. Let's not forget that Evra thought they were the best team in the world. After an uninspiring 0-0 draw in their first game of the tournament to Uruguay, Les Bleus were "just getting warmed up." No team looked terribly impressive during the first games of the tournament. In fact, most teams played more defensive minded and lacked the aggressive zeal to make the games enticing. France came out slow again in its second game, falling 2-0 to a mediocre Mexico team. After two games, most commentators expected France to sit atop the table, even with the tie in game 1, but instead they are tied for last with South Africa and even more disappointingly they have yet to score a goal. Thierry Henry, Frank Ribery and their cohort have failed to find the back of the net yet in a full 180 minutes plus stoppage time. Anyone prescient to make a bet that France would go scoreless in its first two games is sitting on a small fortune. But the lack of scoring and utter domination at the hands of Mexico has only exasperated the team and its coaching staff. First, Chelsea club team star and former French national star Nicolas Anelka was sent home after his rant against coach Domenech following the embarrassing loss to Mexico. The team director has resigned and the team did not practice on Sunday. This only adds insult to injury. We hardly have to jog our memory to think of one of the most bone headed World Cup red cards in history. Think Zidane, the captain and anchor of the French team headbutting the chest of Italian defender Marco Materazzi in the final of 2006. The believer says France is running into an international string of bad luck, but the truth is that the skeptic is probably right. The French are exceptional. Their attitude transcends the bad directions you get walking on the streets in Paris to the young adults that refuse to speak English to lost tourists to the players that think they are bigger than the team and in turn the nation. They still can advance past the first round with a little but of luck and a strong game against South Africa, but the truth is these individuals all wearing the same jersey, are not a team. To call them a team would mean they acknowledge each other on the field. And anyone who has watched them thus far can attest to the fact that they are playing desperate and without any camaraderie. Furthermore this team is not the type of team that is going to get together in the locker room and say lets go out with our heads high if we are going to get eliminated. This French team could easily fail to come at all to this tournament and lose to a decent South African team that has the 12th man advantage of playing at home.