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Levet celebrates yesterday's victory - but at what cost? Bob Edme/AP/Press Association Images

Could Thomas Levet's lake celebration rule him out of The Open?

Parisian took a dive into one of Le Golf National’s water features to celebrate his win at the French Open.

I’M SURE IT seemed like a good idea at the time, but it looks like Thomas Levet could come to regret the manner in which he celebrated his French Open victory yesterday.

After winning his hometown tournament by a single stroke from Thorbjorn Olesen and Mark Foster, the Parisian decided to get intimately acquainted with one of the water features which had caused his competitors at Le Golf National so much trouble over the weekend.

There is a right way and a wrong way to celebrate in a lake, however. The wrong way, as Levet discovered this morning, involves fracturing your shin and ending up in a plaster cast.

The injury has ruled the 42-year-old out of this week’s Scottish Open at Castle Stuart and Levet now faces a race against time in order to be fit for next week’s Open Championship at Sandwich.

Talk about killing the buzz …

Read: Levet the hometown hero at French Open >

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    Mute Professional Chef
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    May 3rd 2016, 11:29 AM

    I don’t buy this Premier League era, It’s a farce and disrespectful to what came before.

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    May 3rd 2016, 11:32 AM

    Don’t worry Liverpool won’t be forgotten..

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    May 3rd 2016, 11:50 AM

    True.. It is a great story, but disrespectful to all the father and son champions before it who are left out by saying premier league era.

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    May 3rd 2016, 12:06 PM

    Sky invented english soccer- well that’s what they want you to think. This was never more evident than Vardys excellent run of goals this season ignoring Jimmy Dunne, it is only one example it like soccer was not played in England until 1992, like you see in extreme communist regimes where they start at year zero and all previous history is deleted.

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    May 3rd 2016, 12:09 PM

    Shaun Wright Phillips isn’t Ian Wright ‘s son .He got with her Ma ,thats all .

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    May 3rd 2016, 1:15 PM

    I have no doubt about that, The most successful club in England and still counting.

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    May 3rd 2016, 2:56 PM

    Not having a go but technically Man Utd are if you are on about English titles (20-18), and overall major trophy wins (62-60).

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    May 3rd 2016, 3:25 PM

    Major trophies? Thats way too much either way…. League, FA Cup, League Cup, CL, Europa/UEFA, CWC. Do not count Charity Shield, European Super cup or World Club…..

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    May 3rd 2016, 3:31 PM

    Would you count UEFA cup is that classed as a major? Considering it’s only open to teams not good enough for champions league.. For me that doesn’t make it a major.

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    May 3rd 2016, 4:42 PM

    So, when it was just champions enter European cup, and many great teams went into UEFA, considered minor? Any tournament that qualifies you for the following season is major. What do you consider major?

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    May 3rd 2016, 5:35 PM

    In England League, Champions League, FA Cup and League cup in the that order.. Then maybe world club cup followed by Europa league but I wouldn’t count them as majors especially the Europa League as it isn’t of the highest standard..

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    May 3rd 2016, 5:39 PM

    World club is a micky mouse FIFA show case of the highest order……. Really…. Europa cup has the teams that just miss out on CL, and CL teams who came 3rd….. Very low quality, huh? Ffs….

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    May 3rd 2016, 5:44 PM

    The UEFA cup had plenty of good teams when only champions could enter the European cup. The cup winners cup was of lower quality in the 80s/90s. The league stage of the Europa league is cat, no doubt but once hit 1/4 finals, it’s a good standard. The World Club
    Championship is only a farce of a competition

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    May 3rd 2016, 5:45 PM

    As I said not of the highest standard never said low.. I mean great players don’t want to win it as they want the champions league.. It’s good for average clubs and the real prize for winning it now is a spot in the champions league..

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    May 3rd 2016, 5:56 PM

    Irish, FA cup and League cup is only taken serious by ‘quality ‘ teams if they have no hope in the league. And yes, I know who played League Cup final.

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    May 3rd 2016, 8:17 PM

    Liverpool 41 United 39 good man!

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    May 3rd 2016, 8:44 PM

    United are 40 Liverpool 41

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    May 3rd 2016, 9:45 PM

    The FA cup has not been won yet…. And 25 years of dominance and still behind? No wonder Sky Sports Man Utd like to say it all started in 92.

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    May 3rd 2016, 9:50 PM

    Who mentioned the FA cup? I hardly included that

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    May 3rd 2016, 10:04 PM

    Well, I missed something, where you get 40?

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    May 3rd 2016, 10:07 PM

    Google it and it comes up..

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    May 3rd 2016, 10:50 PM

    Yes, league, league cup, fa cup, european cup/cl, uefa/europa and European cup winners, get 39.

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    May 3rd 2016, 10:58 PM

    Well it’s seems world club championship is counted.. I guess that’s understandable as its best team from each winners from the champions league from all around the world..

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    May 3rd 2016, 11:00 PM

    Btw I still think Europa league shouldn’t count after 1992 as its second rate teams.. But let’s not argue over little things..

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    May 3rd 2016, 11:13 PM

    World club is a fifa showcase, played in japan, where only South American or European teams will win, where you get hear team names such as mamadodooi extreme warriors or whatever…… In Japan…. Causing a fixture congestion back home…. Yes, major trophy, unlike that mickey mouse cup Europa which has useless teams such as Sevilla, Dortmund, Liverpool, Man Utd, Atletico….. Whatever makes you sleep peacefully….. Funny too, you would say that about a trophy Man U have never even come close to winning….. I know Liverpool have never won World Club, been close…. Christ, it was also skipped for years….. If it was so major, that would never happen.

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    May 3rd 2016, 11:26 PM

    I rather my team win the world club cup than the Euorpa league and I think every fan would agree with that.. Teams who win the Europa league are teams who come 5th, 6th or 7th in there league.. Teams who win the World Club cup win the champions league.. Just look at the winners of it all top clubs. And the Japan teams you mentioned never won it.. Don’t worry tho Liverpool are still ahead…

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    May 4th 2016, 1:35 AM

    Whatever, Europa cup was very important before Man Utd played Liverpool, after that is was a useless cup. World club is a money maker for FIFA, and nothing else, every fan knows that except you. But do not worry, I have no problem acknowledging Man Utd’s dominance that they had, they were brilliant, and yea, as a Pool fan, that is hard, but credit were credit is due…. But you demean a cup, where some of the finest teams in Europe still contest is not right, world club is a joke, no team wants to be there. I am not going to respond after this one, and also, I guess Man Utd stay at 39, your not going to count the cup winners? Where teams near the end could qualify……………?

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    May 4th 2016, 8:42 AM

    Every team want to win the world club cup as it means they already won the champions league..

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    May 4th 2016, 8:45 AM

    Btw I’m not the making this up just google it and United are 40 and Liverpool 41.. I don’t know why it bothers you so much.. Fair enough you don’t respect the World Cup and I don’t respect the Europa league for the past 20 years ( due to the greater number of teams taking part in the champions league) but nevertheless our opinions don’t matter in the overall count..

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    May 3rd 2016, 4:04 PM

    Like Father Like Son !

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    May 3rd 2016, 1:53 PM

    Who are u talking about chef

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    May 3rd 2016, 2:47 PM

    The team that irish brought up.

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    May 3rd 2016, 3:13 PM

    But Chef you follow Shamrock Rovers !!

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    May 3rd 2016, 8:15 PM

    Shels.

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