Saint-Denis, FRANCE: (FILES) French national rugby team manager Jo Maso (L) chats with French rugby union league president Serge Blanco at the end of the rugby union test-match France vs. Argentina, 25 November 2006 at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, northern Paris. France's leading teams delivered a potentially fatal blow to the European Cup by insisting 16 January 2007 they would boycott the 2007-08 edition of the continent's leading club rugby union competition in protest at its impact on their domestic programme. Getty Images logo Getty Images 37 months ago

Saint-Denis, FRANCE: (FILES) French national rugby team manager Jo Maso (L) chats with French rugby union league president Serge Blanco at the end of the rugby union test-match France vs. Argentina, 25 November 2006 at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, northern Paris. France's leading teams delivered a potentially fatal blow to the European Cup by insisting 16 January 2007 they would boycott the 2007-08 edition of the continent's leading club rugby union competition in protest at its impact on their domestic programme.

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