Poor France: Enough is Enough

Okay, I promise this is my absolute last post about the French World Cup farce.  I know I've said this before, but this latest tidbit of news forced me to comment.

They made fools of themselves in South Africa...and I'm talking about on the pitch, but even moreso off the pitch.  Their shameful display during the training session, when like schoolgirls they retreated to the bus in a mini coup against the evil FFF regime who were forcing them to play under a Napoleonic dictator (Domenech), was enough to make everyone think they had been injected with heavy doses of psychedelic drugs.
Once they were dumped out of the Cup (thank goodness, so this farce would end), they were humiliated even further by being flown out of South Africa...are you ready for it?...in COACH class. *GASP* (I laughed out loud when I read this the first time and it's even funnier the second time around).  99% of the people who attended the World Cup flew Coach class so I don't think that's quite the horreur it sounds, and quite honestly they were lucky to have been given a free ticket back to France at all.
After arriving in France (to protests and boos) they were publically flogged (in the press) by everyone with an ink well.
The FFF then handed down ridiculous bans for the players who started the coup, hired a new coach (the one thing I applaud them for...LOVE LOVE LOVE Laurent Blanc), and then they struggled in their first international match (without their star players who had been banned one match by the FFF).
So you would think that's the end of it.
Wrong.
Now three of their team sponsors: Adidas, GDF Suez, and Credit Agricole have sent a reimbursement notice of 4.5 million euros to the FFF for the damage to their images.
One of the spokesmen for GDF Suez said this,
"We are outraged by what happened.  It is a lack of respect for everyone.  It's amazing, something never seen before.  We will examine all contracts until 2014.  We can not leave it at that.  What has happened is too severe.  The French team has given a degraded image of the sport and the country."

So there you have it.  It was only time before the attorneys got involved. :)  C'est fin.