In Salut! Sunderland‘s French Fancies series, we take a look at a display of candour of a type rarely encountered in the English game …
It seems almost unimaginable in the Premier League.
A player is suspected of forcing his sexual attentions on a woman in a motorway service area. Far from clamming up behind an absurd wall of “none of your business” silence, the club’s chairman talks openly about his exasperation with the player’s general conduct.