Don't you hate it when your past utterances come back to haunt you? "Deschamps is not my friend. His behaviour on the pitch is poor. He never stops abusing people and being provocative. Going to Juventus has swollen his head. He takes himself for a world master these days when he is just a mediocre and feeble player." Who said that in 1998? One George Weah, now Deschamps' team-mate at Chelsea. "What I really meant, Didier, was . . ."