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Fumat sends Pau back into top six with bonus-point win
By Tom Webber
Julien Fumat's late try earned Pau the bonus point required to send them back into the Top 14 play-off spots in a 38-15 victory over Lyon.
After Napolioni Nalaga's score looked set to limit Pau to four points, Fumat finished off a lovely move down the right wing two minutes from time to add gloss to a club-record fifth successive Top 14 win.
Lyon took the lead through Toby Arnold after six minutes, but lost former France international Frederic Michalak to injury and the hosts took advantage with Mosese Ratuvou and Sean Dougall crossing before a double from Malik Hamadache.
The hosts' Watisoni Votu and Francisco Gomez Kodela of Lyon were shown yellow cards in quick succession after the restart, before Pau had James Coughlan carried from the field on a stretcher.
Nalaga set up a tense finale when he crossed in the 72nd minute, but Fumat got the all-important score to send Pau above Toulouse and into sixth. Lyon remain 12th, 10 points clear of Grenoble in the relegation zone.
Merci @Magicsteffo7 pour ce magnifique Selfie de Victoire ! #SPLOU #AllSection pic.twitter.com/JomdLS4Tx4
— Section Paloise (@SectionPaloise) February 12, 2017
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That's really stupidly pedantic. Let's say the gods had smiled on us, and we were playing Ireland in Belfast on this trip. Then you'd be happy to accept it as a tour of the UK. But they're not going to Australia, or Peru, or the Philippines, they're going to the UK. If they had a match in Paris it would be fair to call it the "end-of-year European tour". I think your issue has less to do with the definition of the United Kingdom, and is more about what is meant by the word "tour". By your definition of the word, a road trip starting in Marseilles, tootling through the Massif Central and cruising down to pop in at La Rochelle, then heading north to Cherbourg, moving along the coast to imagine what it was like on the beach at Dunkirk, cutting east to Strasbourg and ending in Lyon cannot be called a "tour of France" because there's no visit to St. Tropez, or the Louvre, or Martinique in the Caribbean.
Go to commentsJust thought for a moment you might have gathered some commonsense from a southerner or a NZer and shut up. But no, idiots aren't smart enough to realise they are idiots.
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