*sigh* Leftovers

Thanksgiving is a family holiday. In our family this means that each year the big meal is hosted by a different family member. Which is good.

But which means that more often than not we arrive home on Thanksgiving evening to discover that our house does not have those wonderful lingering aromas that only cooking the traditional feast produces.

It is a melancholy moment but a moment that adults have spent their life times teaching themselves to deal with. All adults know how to face this moment.

Well, maybe not all.

Here's what we do.Some people might call it extreme, we call it leftovers.You go ahead and do it your way, we are going to go ahead and continue to do it our way.

In pretty important football news, yesterday in Nantes FC Nantes stuffed AS Monaco 3-0. There is a log jam at the top of the Ligue 2 table but FC Nantes remains in the mix, currently outside the promotion zone but still easily within range. It is plenty OK for a Nantes fan to retain some optimism.

Meanwhile the downside of 0-3 is the continuation of a tale of woe in the Principality. The travails for Monaco this season are perhaps even more severe than the ongoing ignominy of Nantes in Ligue 2. Monaco last year was in Ligue 1 with a long history of success. Monaco has seven Ligue 1 championship banners and has won le Coupe de France five times. The relegation to Ligue 2 had to hurt in view of the fact that, like FC Nantes, Monaco was an absolute fixture in the top league.

In its first year in Ligue 2, Nantes at least contended, giving Nantes fans the illusion that the team was soon to return to the top rank. The team did in fact succeed in winning immediate promotion back to the top rank. The immediate second relegation is another matter and continues to be the itch that the team seems unable to scratch.

For Monaco, this first season outside Ligue 1 looks dire, dire indeed. With this most recent result, AS Monaco is absolute dead last in Ligue 2, 11 points from 15 games. In France only the top two leagues are fully professional. The third league usually has a professional team or two but also has teams that charitably would be referred to as semi-professional. The beautiful people in Monte Carlo fact the very real possibility of relegation of their team from the ranks of professional football and as early as next year could be seeing only amateur football.