■By GARY FITZGERALD

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STEVE Diamond’s Sharks slumped despairingly out of Europe on a frantic and incident-packed night in France where referee Nigel Owens had one of the busiest games of his long career.
The experienced Welshman awarded two penalty tries, sent three players to the sin bin and had to spend several occasions watching replays of incidents on the giant screen before being able to give his decision.
In the end, Diamond’s men went down fighting at the Stade Marcel Deflandre as the hosts jus...