Vincent Clerc OR Frédéric Michalak to hang up boots after Top 14 play-off

This weekend's Top 14 play-off match between Toulon and Lyon will mark the final professional game for one of two French international stalwarts, Vincent Clerc or Frédéric Michalak. Earlier in the season, both Clerc (Toulon) and Michalak (Lyon) announced their retirements from the game, capping off careers which ran together for many years at Toulouse. This season has been a changing of the guard in some ways for French rugby, with Clerc and Michalak joining fellow internationals Florian Fritz and Aurélien Rougerie out of the game. Indeed, Clerc - who has broken the record for the number o…