FRANCE’S LAST STAND

Les Blues played their last Championship game for 16 years on April 6 1931 – Easter Monday – although at the time they thought they were still on probation and that they might yet avoid the axe. A smallish crowd witnessed the last rites at Stade Colombes – nobody from outside Paris was interested in travelling up on Easter Monday – but the French dug deep and came from behind on three occasions to claim only their second-ever win over the English who finished without a championship win for the first time since 1905. Andre Clady and Jean Galia scored tries fo...

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