Jean-Pierre Papin

Yeah, that's when, you know, Bernard Tapie went to prison.

It was Marseille with the greatest team in Europe at that, you know, Deschamps, you know, Jean-Pierre Papin, and they got relegated for cheating.

So I saw all that happen.

And... that was done fairly quickly.

We were Marseille, yeah.

Um, but it was extraordinary, uh, to see the, the Marseille players, Jean-Pierre Papin, Deschamps, all walk out, and I tell you, [laughs] Didier Deschamps, great guy.

He's a really good friend of Graham Arnold now.

They've crossed paths many times, not only with Australia, but with, with Iraq, of course, in the World Cup.

Yes.

Not only Platini, Gires, Touré and Papin.

Yes, I remember.

Yes.

Our players.

Papin? Jean-Pierre Papin?

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Yeah

Like Jean-Pierre Papin and all that.

And they've never gotten near that level again

I think they're still, I think they're still the record, um, French First Division title winners.

You know, Marseille now, you know, Tappi takes over in 86.

There's beginning to be money spent, you know, forward line of Papin and Alofs, you know, sort of like, you know, the experienced and the youngster, you know, Papin and Alofs is disastrous.

Mexico 86, but it's now beginning to really start scoring some goals.

But, you know, they, you know, they win the first leg 3-0 with Rob Vitska and Birdkamp.

So again, that mix of youth and experience.

And here are seeds in the Marseille side that we will come to know later.

Michael, I mean, Abadie Pelly's there, he's talking about Papin, I mean, Foster's there, Giresse is there.

Yeah,