After a few weeks, however, the judges backed from zero tolerance after the president of France's Football Association, Noël Le Graët, decided that homophobia should not stop matches in France - unlike racism.

- He ranks these, it's completely crazy, says Yoann Lemaire, former football player who was kicked out of his club when he came out as gay, to SVT Sport.

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