French footballing legend and World Cup winner Zinedine Zidane laid into the French team yesterday for refusing to train after striker Nicolas Anelka was thrown out of the camp for insulting the coach.

"Concerning the players, I don't agree with the fact that they refused to go to the training pitch," Zidane told reporters in Johannesburg.

"There are two things that will be remembered from this World Cup ... the winner and the fact that the French team refused to attend the training session ahead of their match with South Africa."

"Even when I was a player, I never gave my opinion on the composition of the team," he said, looking visibly uncomfortable talking about his former team-mates.

"I was the captain and there was a coach above me and I respected him. I followed the rules and that's how I think things should be."

France still have a hope of getting into the last sixteen, but it will mean scoring a lot of goals against South Africa and hoping that Uruguay and Mexico do not draw and we just can't see both happening and while we are not French, we are embarrassed for them after everything that has happened at this World Cup.