François Hollande has bent over backwards since becoming France’s president to avoid provoking the Gallic propensity to strike.
Now, of all unlikely sources, he faces a weekend of strike action by the country’s football clubs, who have instructed players to hang up their boots in protest against his 75 per cent income tax rate.
Angrily condemning the “unfair and discriminatory” tax for threatening to cripple struggling clubs, Jean-Pierre Louvel, head of the UCPF professional football club union, said yesterday: “We are talking about the death of French football.”
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