JAMES HARRINGTON
FRENCH COLUMN

ADVENT tensions rather than goodwill in the corridors of French rugby power in the week leading up to Christmas, as Top 14 and ProD2 club presidents met in Lyon to discuss the financial situation of the professional game on the right-hand side of the Channel.
The French game’s power brokers are in politicking mood, with elections looming and wider global pressures on rugby that, despite the relatively rude health of the professional game here, they cannot legitimately ignore.
The election for the next presidency of the Ligue Nationale de Rugby...