45 groups of ultra supporters, like those of PSG, FC Nantes and ASSE, signed a press release to oppose a resumption of L1 and L2 premature and behind closed doors.
In this period of health crisis, many groups of supporters have shown solidarity and generosity in the fight against Covid-19, by multiplying actions and donations. Engaged in this battle, 45 groups representing around 75% of the ultra movement including the CUP (Paris), the Green Angels (Saint-Étienne), the Loire Brigade (Nantes), the Ultramarines (Bordeaux), the Roazhon Celtic Kop (Rennes) or the Ultras Boys (Strasbourg), do not imagine a stadium without an audience, football reduced “to a television program”. “Football at all costs is a football of shame that will have no future. It is not an option. It will resume in due course when sanitary and social conditions are met. ”, they say.
The supporters consider in particular the “quarrels” of the leaders “indecent”, deploring “an inability to gain height”. They consider it “urgent to think about the future”.
Communique common to 45 groups and entities of supporters. Football is not a TV program, it is not played at a cost, behind closed doors, for TV rights. Stop your indecent football business.
To relay! pic.twitter.com/ZIRf8DEhkN– Romain (@RomainGaudin) April 13, 2020
“This football is dying of having torn itself away from its roots and of being unable to see beyond a budgetary exercise, than a window of transfers or a multi-year television broadcasting contract, denounce the signatories. If professional football wants to restore its greatness, but if it wants above all to guard against economic vagaries, it must take advantage of this time of pause and confinement to rethink. To put an end to this inflationary headlong rush. This can only be done with a long-term vision. This can only be done by recovering its economic independence from the dictatorship of the short-term lottery auction between television broadcasters. This can only be done by involving all of those who make football, starting with the place where football is lived: the stadium. “
The petitioners
In Ligue 1: Tribune Nord Amiens, Kop de la Butte Angers, Ultramarines Bordeaux, Celtic Ultras Brest, Ultras Brestois Brest, Lingon’s Boys Dijon, Dogues Virage Est Lill, Brigade Loire Nantes, Gladiators Nîmes, Gruppa Metz, Horda Frenetik Metz, Armata Ultras Montpellier, Collectif Ultras Paris, Roazhon Celtic Kop Rennes, Green Angels Saint-Etienne, Ultrem Reims, Ultra Boys Strasbourg, Fédération des Supporters du RCS Strasbourg, Indians Tolosa Toulouse.
In Ligue 2: Ultras Auxerre, Malherbe Normandy Kop Caen, Armada Clermont, Ultras Clermont, Kop Banlieue Créteil, Red Kaos Grenoble, Diables Bleus Grenoble, Kop Rouge Guingamp, Barbarians Le Havre, Virage Sud Le Mans, Red Tigers Lens, Merlus Ultras Lorient, Saturday FC Nancy , Drouguis Orléans, Old Clan Paris FC, Ultras Lutetia Paris FC, Tribune Nord Sochaux, Boys 07 Sochaux, Sociochaux Sochaux, Planète Sochaux, Ultras Roisters Valenciennes, Génération Rouge et Blanc Valenciennes.
And also: Collectif Isarien Beauvais, Red Star Fans, Du Passé Je Suis Amoureux Toulon, Fedelissimi Toulon, Old Clan Toulon.