BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa—You really have to hand it to the French. No team at the World Cup got the world's attention like they did.

As we bid them bon voyage from South Africa, let's count up all the lives they've touched. Ireland hates the French for cheating them out of a World Cup berth. The French people hate the French team for disgracing them on the world stage. The French team hates the French Football Federation for expelling one of its own.

And...