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The simmering rivalry in the dressing room erupts on the training ground. And the head coach battles to clear his name against disturbing, unfounded and untrue allegations.

Maisie Adam continues the shocking story of a brutal attack at Paris Saint-Germain that turned close team-mates into bitter rivals, damaging lives, careers and reputations.

The fragile harmony in the dressing room is finally and irrevocably broken with a training ground bust-up that has repercussions for the team in the Champions League. And pushes the embattled Kheira Hamraoui to breaking point.

Meanwhile head coach Didier Olle-Nicolle who has continued to select Hamraoui for the team despite external pressures to drop her, finds himself at the centre of serious allegations of sexual misconduct involving a young PSG player.

Suspended by the club while a formal investigation takes place a horrified and shocked Olle Nicolle must fight to clear his name. The claims against him are subsequently proved untrue and without any basis whatsoever but its a harrowing time for him, describing himself as 鈥渃ollateral damage鈥 in the latest fall-out from the Diallo-Hamraoui affair.

The two players themselves are both about to experience summers of discontent. For Diallo its the end of the road at PSG, a new contract failing to materialise. While for Hamraoui it soon becomes apparent she faces an uncertain, and for her an unhappy future at the club. There appears to be no end to her trials and tribulations.

As the 2022/23 season starts Hamraoui is in near exile at the club, training alone away from the first team.

For Diallo though she is effectively now unemployed, without a club, at the age where she should be approaching her peak playing days. But that is not the worst of her troubles. Because on the 16th September 2022 there's another knock at her door from the poilce and this time they have statements and wiretaps to back up their suspicions.

She's arrested again 鈥 and this time charges will be made.

Narrator Maisie Adam
Interviews: Charlotte Harpur and Tom Williams
Voices for interviewees performed by: Janine George, Chyna Johnson, Tom Roberts and Colin Ryan
Translation for the Aminata Diallo interview: Laura Bennett
Script consultant: Dave Bowler
Researchers: Rob Carroll and Janet Hughes
Assistant Producer: Jennifer Hanratty-Ball
Editor: Kevin Hinde
Assistant Commissioner for the 成人快手: Lizzi Doyle
Commissioning Executive: Stevie Middleton
Executive Producer: Craig South
Writer and Producer: Jonathan Sides

A PDI Media production for 成人快手 Sounds and 成人快手 Radio 5 Live.

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