NEIL COTTON takes a look at a small French club daring to do things a little differently…

IN CLERMONT-FERRAND, capital of the mountainous Auvergne region of France, football has always been a poor second to rugby.
Whilst the town’s rugby side boasts an illustrious history, more latterly becoming French Champions in 2010 and European Champions Cup (Formerly Heineken Cup) runners-up in 2013 and 2015, its football team, Clermont Foot, can only offer up a third tier championship won in 2007 and which gave the club the membership of Ligue 2, French football’s second tier....