French quick to dismiss ‘soft red’

PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

ONLY France could ban one of their most notorious agents provocateurs for life, then clear the way for his resurrection as a Justice of the Peace.
Michel Palmie’s conversion from fearsome outlaw into head of discipline for European club affairs still takes some believing, akin in its implausibility to the US Attorney General installing Jesse James as resident magistrate at the petty sessions court in Tombstone.
During the Seventies, when too many referees turned a blind eye to all manner of mayhem, Palmie and his Beziers henchmen mar...

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