FRENCH COLUMN

Life has been somewhat eventful for Steffon Armitage, the back row forward voted the finest player in Europe not too long ago. Those heady days accompanied by major trophies with Toulon persuaded many to support his ambition to become a major World Cup star with England.
Not so as it turned out. Instead he fell out with his Toulon paymaster, appeared before a court after a night club dust-up and joined a club fresh from Division Two.
Steffon, whose brother Delon did something similar in swapping Toulon for Lyon, is on the way back. That’s the least you can say.
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