David Attoub loses interest opposite 70-week anathema for eye gouging Six Nations Rugby

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David Attoub, the Stade Francais prop, has lost an interest opposite his 70-week anathema for eye-gouging.

The 24-year-old was found guilty of the conflict on Stephen Ferris, the Ireland flanker, during Ulster"s 23-13 Heineken Cup feat over Stade at Ravenhill in Dec last year. Attob perceived his complicated judgment in January, but motionless to interest the the statute after Max Guazzini, the decorated boss of Stade Français, indicted Judge Jeff Blackett of anti-French bias.

Attoub will right away be forced to offer his suspension, the second longest for such an corruption in the sports history, and will not lapse to rugby until Apr 22, 2011.

The interest hearing, that was hold in London, ruled that Attoub "had not demonstrated that the strange preference had been in error".

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At the strange conference Judge Blackett had described the corruption as the misfortune action of hit with the eyes that I have had to understanding with.

Blackett had already criminialized Julien Dupuy, the club"s France scrum-half, for twenty-four weeks, that was marked down by one on appeal, for gouging Ferris in the same Heineken Cup compare

The longest bans• Two years: Richard Nones (Colomiers), Nov 1999. The column was heavily punished for an injury-time tool in a Heineken Cup diversion opposite Pontypridd.• twenty-six weeks: Dylan Hartley (Northampton), Apr 2007. The hookers hopes of personification for England in the World Cup were dashed after being cited for gouging 3 London Wasps players. One of the offences was overturned. • twenty-three weeks: Julien Dupuy (Stade Francais), Dec 2009. The scrum halfs bar pronounced the chastisement for gouging Stephen Ferris, of Ulster, was to do with him being French.