JAMES HARRINGTON
FRENCH COLUMN

THE English Football League’s Championship play-off final is sometimes referred to as ‘the richest game in football’, with £100million of spoils going to the victor.
Similar importance – if not similar financial boosts – could be placed on today’s promotion-relegation play-off between Grenoble and Montpellier at Stade des Alpes. In the blue, desperate-for-promotion, corner: Grenoble – losing ProD2 finalists in Toulouse against Vannes last Saturday, having lost last season’s ProD2 final against Oyonnax, and then also the play-off match at home against Perpign...