It could be to do with the status of football ( versus, say, rugby ), could be French socialist leanings, could be to do with the way their TV marketplace works ( as TV, especially Champions League success, generates most of the money in football ) or could be a chicken-and-egg related to lack of success in the Champions League especially, but this is all POV that Jayron warned you about.
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It could be to do with the status of football ( versus, say, rugby ), could be French socialist leanings, could be to do with the way their TV marketplace works ( as TV, especially Champions League success, generates most of the money in football ) or could be a chicken-and-egg related to lack of success in the Champions League especially, but this is all POV that Jayron warned you about.
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:: : : : In fact, if it's the latter it could be to do with " history " conversion-if a page had only one edit ( its creation ) before conversion, it will appear to have been created " by " the Conversion Script, even after the old histories were recovered and merged in, because the last edit of each article got eaten by the import ( see Wikipedia : Usemod article histories ).