Zapping Goal! Football club ASSE: the debrief of the match against FC Metz
“It’s called the cauldron, it’s just a small bowl of barely warm water. When it warms up, it is too often under pressure from visitors. We are far from the legend born on November 6, 1974, the evening of the second great feat of arms of the Greens, the first being the 3-0 of the team led by Keita and Hervé Revelli, served by Bereta and Samardzic against the Bayern on October 1, 1969. The next day, in the Team, Robert Vergne dipped his best pen into history (but did he have a bad one?) “Like Napoleon at Austerlitz, those who witnessed this extraordinary feat will be able to say a long time yet: I was there! “. Pierre Guichard was one of those “It’s the happiest day of my life”.
Should we explain to them that it is up to them to boil the pot?
Five years later it was Larqué, Bathenay, Bereta and Triantafilos who wrote their names on one of the most beautiful pages in French sport, making Stephan Kovac in the Team say “Saint-Étienne, it was Ajax”. It was the sports daily that was going to popularize this name of cauldron, also used by Yugoslav journalists, impressed by the warmth of the popular from which seemed to come out the smoke of the chimneys that have watched over this private stadium for so long today. symbol but where the kops took over to raise the temperature and prevent the oven from turning off. That was yesterday, it was last year, it was ages ago.
Today, there is no longer any need to sign orders to deprive ultras of their passion. The lockdown is general, generated by the virus from China, where we are supposed to watch matches set for Sunday family meals. Test balloon to be transformed as much as the measure taken by Canal to make room for the oval balloon?
We are moving away from our flaming smoky fire, perhaps, but in Asia, football fans must have wondered like us in front of this private stadium of spectacle on the field as much as in the stands. How sad and if many people prided themselves in their time on having invented the nickname of the cauldron, no one has any reason to write it down or shout it into a microphone and not only because the team accumulates failures. or half-failures in this house which should be theirs. But do they take the time to read this line written in the history of the club and in the entry tunnel of the players “Here is the cauldron”? Should we explain to them that it is up to them to boil the pot?
“When we played at 8:30 p.m., the atmosphere would start to heat up at 5 p.m. and it could last until midnight”
Two years ago, Jean-Michel Larqué reminded Akhillé Aercke in Télé Loisirs how much this name was justified. “When we played at 8:30 p.m., the mood would start to heat up at 5 p.m. and it could last until midnight. It was bubbling. “We fear that now this title is usurped.
In the face of the wave of defeatism, supporters did what they could, to help their Saint win on Sunday, as the Magic fans called out. Failing to be in the stadium, they were several hundred at his door when the players’ bus arrived and they appreciated if we are to believe Debuchy “Seeing the supporters did me a lot of good” or Puel ” They did something amazing. It was colorful, singing, great “. More than words, actions would have shown that the message was received. But the report is sad, summed up by the coach himself “Our first half was insufficient in terms of volume, races, intensity of play, pressure. We lacked everything ”. Could the presence of the supporters have changed the situation as suggested by the player “We know how important they are here in Saint-Etienne …” and coach “We can imagine all the pressure that there would have been on the opponent in the second period ”? Without doubt, and the Stéphanois are not the only ones who are no longer at home at home (we have never counted so many away victories as this season). All the more reason to make them understand that they are the ones who have the keys to this Geoffroy-Guichard which has become a paradise for visitors when it should be hell. “
Didier BIGARD