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Toulouse forward Trevor Brennan’s life ban from playing rugby has been reduced to a five-year suspension.

In March, the European Rugby Cup (ERC) found Brennan guilty of assaulting an Ulster fan at a Heineken Cup game and he was handed the life ban.

However an independent appeals panel has ruled that the initial maximum penalty was “disproportionate”.

Brennan’s ban from participating in future ERC tournaments has also been reduced to a five-year suspension.

BBC Sport report both bans will be deemed to have started on 1 June 2007.

But in the big fella’s defence the fan had just called his mother a whore.

Well, have you seen her? A slag yes, but a whore?