Although they lost just one of their six seats, two of the remaining five quickly became embroiled in a controversy about their election so arcane that even seasoned hacks struggled to add a 'gate' suffix to it.
Growth is good but I have yet to see any articles predict that the arrival of Beckham in Ligue 1 will add a modest 10% more fans to the present average Ligue 1 average gate of 19, 000.