Comments from France captain Patrice Evra, who was dropped for the team's final World Cup match, a 2-1 loss to host South Africa:
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``Tonight it's time for the big apology toward the thousands of French people, because I share the pain of all these French people.
``What hurts even more is that this apology should have been made yesterday, but my coach stopped me doing it as a captain, and that hurts even more. But it won't change anything, now is not the time to settle scores.
``I think that the time is for suffering, and it is a sincere suffering.
``The whole of France needs to have an explanation for this disaster. It's not the time to give them, but I will personally give them ... what I went through, just the truth, as quickly as possible, whether it's in a press conference or an interview.
``I have nothing to hide. The French team doesn't belong to anyone, it belongs to all of these French people.
``People need to know the truth, the causes of this enormous disaster.
``I am telling you, it should have been done last night.
``We put out a statement to give a reason, but it goes further than that, I saw it more like an SOS ...
``France will know the truth. I will say everything I went through as captain.
``Again tonight, I've been taken out of the team for no valid reason.
