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Sat 11 Nov 2009Chill in the air as French land
BEING GREETED by a deluge – on Friday the 13th, of all dates – on their arrival in Dublin last evening wasn’t, as it proved, the most pleasant of bienvenues for Raymond Domenech and his French squad.
The manager and his captain, Thierry Henry, hardly had their mood lightened by having to face a press conference at an airport hotel immediately after disembarking, the bumper attendance at which – most of it French media – suggested a big game might just be imminent.
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