a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2009/08/mathieu-bastareaud-returns-with-two-big.html"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/SpJNZWCNudI/AAAAAAAADT0/cLGAVFgS5MM/s400/bastareaud-is-back.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373442403213359570" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"Stade Francais centre Mathieu Bastareaud returned to action last weekend in the Top 14, playing for the first time since the New Zealand tour drama with France. /spanbr /br /The 21 year old had a troubled few months after he lied about being mugged while on tour in New Zealand, resulting in him being sent home and the truth later being revealed following an admission that he actually just fell over when drunk.br /br /He is now facing the possibility of a lengthy international ban, between one to three years, which will be decided on by the French Rugby Federation next month.br /br /French team mate Thierry Dusautoir is pleading for leniency stating that he feels the young man has been sufficiently punished already.br /br /