The director general of AS Saint-Étienne, Xavier Thuilot, denounced Tuesday “A general lack of anticipation” after the postponement of the OM – Saint-Étienne match, scheduled for Friday, following four cases declared positive for Covid-19 in the Marseille workforce. “I am stunned by the general lack of anticipation. There is a real organizational problem ”, said the Stéphanois leader in a daily interview Progress.
“We know that we will have difficulty playing the 380 games of the season. There’s even a 99% chance that we can’t. In March, we could say that it fell on us but today, it is not normal that we cannot predict ”, he cursed.
“We are referring to regulations which are unsuitable, almost ancestral”
“We start a Championship without the manual. It’s incredible. How will the League and the FFF do to ensure sports fairness? “, he wondered recalling that “Last year, there were winners and losers”. “We are referring to regulations which are unsuitable, almost ancestral”, he stressed. “We have long periods of inactivity and then suddenly we’re going to play three times in seven days”, Thuilot insists again.
“We cannot be asked to make ten or fifteen times more efforts than those required of the rest of the population. We are tested twice a week and as soon as there is one who coughs, we stop. We are willing to undergo three times as many constraints but this is beyond measure ”, he added. “The goal is not to say that we do not care about the virus but to define the conditions that allow us to practice our activity”, concluded the Director General of ASSE.