Saint-Andre's France future in the balance

He is famously one of the few Saints among many sinners to have been associated with the French national team.

But after yet another sub-par performance by Les Bleus, Philippe Saint-Andre may not be far from the sticky end often associated with canonisation.



When he was appointed after the last World Cup, British writers in particular saw it as the beginning of a fresh era.

After more than a decade of mad coach syndrome under first Bernard Laporte then Marc Lievremont, sanity would be restored under (very helpfully from our point of view) a coach whose experience outside France is ref…