The Independent's James Lawton attempts to decipher the enigmatic French coach Marc Lievremont ahead of Sunday's World Cup Final.
In a little more than 72 hours Marc Lièvremont may have stunned the rugby world. He may have moved from the low ground of controversy to the uplands of pure legend.
At this moment, though, he is standing beneath a ball that has been hoisted high by one of his coaching assistants.
It is one of the Lièvremont rituals that so often suggest a man congenitally apart, this session of kicking and catching while his frequently malcontent players loosen up at the other side of the training field for a little serious work before Sunday's World Cup final with the All Blacks.
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