As is the custom in Belgium, they fired head coach Marc Grosjean and brought in a busload of fresh players during winter.
Why, at two o'clock, has a busload of beautiful Asian women, well-behaved children and gently patriarchal men in blue shalwar kameez, all oscillating between Urdu and English, appeared at the coffee counter like a technicolour hallucination?
A tour guide described how after leaving his busload of Spanish and Latin American tourists in the museum, he saw a young man in jeans and shirt standing in the museum carpark, holding a Kalashnikov.
The attackers appear to have chosen the day of their attack carefully, as at least one busload from La Goulette was at the museum.Prime Minister Habib Essid said that the dead and wounded included German, Italian, Polish and Spanish tourists, but gave no further details as to how the stand-off was ended.
But it might need a whole busload to spur Europe's economies to faster growth.
The tension has been worsened by incendiary text messages, such as one that falsely said a busload of Luo women and children had been blown up by Kikuyus in western Kenya.The security forces can barely cope without resorting to violence.
The targeting of a busload of Syrian workers heading home from Baghdad, for example, brought bereavement directly into Syrian homes.
It was to avenge an attempted assassination of the senior Gemayel in 1975 that Phalangist militiamen massacred a busload of Palestinian football fans, the act that ignited the civil war.
There may well be a backlash, says Josef Janning of the Bertelsmann Foundation, a think-tank, if something really bad happens, such as a busload of soldiers dying while fighting the Taliban.Fortunately, the Bundeswehr has been lucky so far.
They killed at least 17 foreign visitors and two Tunisians; and wounded scores more.A tour guide described how, after leaving his busload of Spanish-speaking tourists at the museum, he saw a young man standing in the car park with a Kalashnikov.
Binyamin Netanyahu, under attack for the episode but unrepentant, met Yasser Arafat for the first time in eight months.At least 180 civilians were slaughtered in the past week in Algeria, including a busload of schoolchildren.
