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I pics, a correspondent ’ A from the weekly "Football Chat" reported of the French team. "They did not play football, they frivolled. There was something exquisitely dainty In all their football. Occasionally they got the ball. When they did. the player in possession posed for his portrait in much the .same way as one would pose before a photographer." The French team eventually went down 1-.17 to Denmark. Officials were not sorry to see the back of them. Apparently 'they had demanded cigarettes at half time.

When asked about his incongruous smoking obsession Georges Bayron. one of the players, could only say that "Without tose cigarettes at half time there would have been a mutiny."

As I remember the Dhaka scene, a large number of footballers used to smoke in the 70s and early 80s. Today you will hardly And a top notch player in Bangladesh who smokes. But. then you will hardly find a player who .scores. Some of our players may have confused the No Smoking sign with No Scoring.