Team Focus: Gritty Girard Begins to Persuade Lille Doubters As he returned to the Stade de la Mosson for the first time since he left Montpellier this summer, Lille coach René Girard was welcomed as you would expect the man who guided the locals to a first-ever Ligue 1 title to be. Fans brandished scarves bearing his name, the club’s administrat...