Lyon win seventh straight French football title

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PARIS (AFP) — Lyon wrapped up their seventh straight French championship on Saturday with a 3-1 win at Auxerre while Paris St Germain saved their top flight status by winning 2-1 at Sochaux to relegate Lens.

Bordeaux placed second, four points adrift, after they could only draw 2-2 at Lens, sending their opponents down, along with Metz and Strasbourg, a decade after winning the title.

"I have the satisfaction of a job well done and I will always have that feeling," said Lyon coach Alain Perrin whose future at the club is in doubt.

"But as far as my future is concerned as the coach of Lyon, I don't have an answer although I am under contract.

"This is mission accomplished. As coach I was handed the task of winning a seventh title and it is a deserved...