How Nicolas Anelka's infamous World Cup row spectacularly tore French football apart
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mirror.co.ukThe half-time whistle goes at the Peter Mokaba Stadium in South Africa on June 17 2010. France and Mexico’s players walk down the tunnel after a goalless first 45 minutes in their second group stage match at the 2010 World Cup.
The French - who were runners-up four years previously - have failed to find the net in 135 minutes of football at the tournament, having drawn their opening game against Uruguay 0-0.
Striker Nicolas Anelka was leading the attack that day, and by half-time, the man who had won the Golden Boot with Chelsea in 2009, had gone 429 minutes without recording a shot on target for Les Bleus.
When the teams re-emerged 15 minutes later, Anelka had been replaced by André-Pierre Gignac, as the French looked for a goal to help
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