By activating the conclusion of Ligue 1 this Thursday at a Board of Directors, the LFP put an end to the steeple war which took place between the different presidents of clubs. What relieve Bernard Caïazzo on the side of ASSE.
This time, recreation is over … By announcing the end of the French championships, as Prime Minister Edouard Philippe had asked for earlier this week, the League has therefore whistled for the end of the match. While the classification of the L1 was activated via a system based on the quotient between the number of points taken and the number of games played, that did not change the world at Saint-Etienne, which finished seventeenth in the French championship . But if Bernard Caïazzo has little to say about the choice of the LFP, the chairman of the ASSE supervisory board, on the other hand, gave certain club leaders a red card. Since these last days, and especially since the government decision to stop the season, some presidents have clashed with proposals all more wacky than the other. In order to establish a classification favoring their respective team, Jean-Michel Aulas (OL) and Gérard Lopez (LOSC) had notably stood out. What did not please Nathalie Boy de la Tour: “Professional football does not come out of it grown after the debates. We have presidents with lots of ideas and egos … “, released the president of the LFP. An attack validated by Caïazzo.
“It’s a Lépine competition that we’ve seen since Tuesday. At one point it got funny. It looked like there was no health problem in France. I think there are people who don’t love each other, unfortunately that’s how it is. There are phenomena of rivalry in the championships, but there we were in an approach to respond to a serious problem, a health problem. What do we care about the ranking, to finish 5th, 6th or 7th. We told them, stop, we’re in the same boat, if it goes bad for one it will go bad for the other. I’m just glad it went quickly, because I thought it wouldn’t be possible to last a fortnight like that. We had a government instruction, it had to be respected, that’s all. At some point, we are not going to go against the Prime Minister… ”, launched, on RMC, the president of the Premier League union, who recently seemed to be bothered by the fact that, if the final of the ASSE-PSG French Cup was not disputed, it was OL that risked taking advantage of it with a European place .