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Grosso, the Lyon head coach, was left bloodied by the bus attack last month
The Times
On the front page of L’Equipe was a close-up of Fabio Grosso’s bloodied face, the deep cut visible over his left eye and the red splattered across his lips, cheek, nose and forehead. “Le dégoût et la honte” was the headline: The disgust and the shame.
Grosso, Lyon’s head coach, was left with “glass stuck in his head”, according to the club’s owner. Marseille ultras had hurled missiles and rocks at the Lyon bus before their Ligue 1 fixture at the Stade Velodrome on October 29 and as those inside dived to the floor, the windows shattered.
The game was postponed after Grosso and his assistant, Raffaele Longo, were hurt, while further clashes left five police officers injured.
In a statement, Marseille
