EURO 2000: Double incentive for the coolest of operators The master defender: Laurent Blanc of France; Alex Hayes in Paris meets the veteran kingpin seeking final consolation

From: The Independent - London | Date: June 4, 2000| Author: Alex Hayes | Copyright information

THE PROBLEM with Laurent Blanc is that he's too nice. On the football field, he passes delicately, reads beautifully and intercepts effortlessly. Oh, and he kisses bald men too. Off the pitch, the Internazionale defender has been pushed around by chairmen, lied to by managers and cheated by fellow professionals. But even when a piece of shameless play-acting from Croatia's Slaven Bilic deprived him of a World Cup final two years ago, Blanc never lost his cool. "I am simply incapable of gettin...

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