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Zapping Goal! Football club AS Saint-Etienne: The question of the day

What happened at Groupama Stadium, which is no longer a stadium of the Enlightenment, is a new warning against the risks engendered by a football which escapes its leaders and its public not immune to it. a blinding or oriented populism, of outbursts reinforced by the group effect when the spectator imagines himself an actor. At Geoffroy-Guichard, it was something else, but we experienced fire there before the closed session, prompting this reaction from Fred Hermel on RMC “I think there is sometimes a huge gap between the supporters and reality football. Some take ownership of the club when it belongs to everyone, even those who live on the other side of the world and who don’t go to the stadium every weekend. ”

It is perhaps then the latter who answered the question posed by the Green People site. According to this consultation launched on Twitter, nearly 65% ​​of ASSE supporters want Claude Puel to stay. This is not a poll, but its result significantly offsets the sling wind translated by a poster campaign that has flourished on the walls or road signs of the city. Not very green, other Greens will say, but passion is not always right and love is not always right. At least the authors of this campaign have economic and human resources. This is not a first in the club’s long history.

17 years ago protests for Antonetti to stay

They say a coach doesn’t have a career until he’s been fired at least once. Some more or less well seated on the bench of Saint-Etienne will confirm. We have seen some pass whose lease has been shortened, starting with Robert Herbin and finally Ghislain Printant, passing by Jean Djorkaeff, Elie Baup, Dominique Bathenay, Robert Nouzaret, Ivan Hasek, Laurent Roussey, Alain Perrin, Oscar Garcia etc. . The Romeyer – Caïazzo duo have also worn out a few and the arrival of the second as president had already been marked by a popular sling in favor of Frédéric Antonetti pushed towards the exit. Neither the banners nor the demonstrations in front of the stadium had changed anything and it will undoubtedly be the same seventeen years later, but this time in the other direction. Puel will continue his task and not just because a silent majority wants it if we believe the vote generated by Green People or Arnaud Nordin evoking many messages of support.

It will take other points to convince

What to strengthen the position of the coach? He is certainly more so by the team’s two consecutive wins, although his rhetoric has not changed either before or after. On Friday he hammered “we must meet the challenge together” and on Sunday he insisted “It is with this state of mind that we will move up the standings”. The six points give it credit but above all give air to all of Saint-Etienne and put the field back at the center of everyone’s concerns. At least we hope so. In Troyes, we saw that the only truth delivered by the ball is that of those who handle it. While there were many absent, there was still enough talent at Trauco and Boudebouz to make the difference. The second is the example of an individual challenge “I worked a lot physically during the period when I did not play” and collective with a repositioning hailed by Timothée Kolodziejczak “It changes everything: he knows how to play between the lines, was the team’s metronome ”. The person liked this role “I was comfortable” and Laurent Battles admitted “It was a good choice” but we are not going to get carried away. These three points give just a little hope, including to shareholders and to those who want to take over the club. Others will be needed to convince.

Didier BIGARD

Didier Bigard’s meeting

This week, Didier Bigard focuses on the situation of Claude Puel at ASSE. A situation which has improved a lot with the results of the Greens and in particular the two victories against Clermont and Troyes. More serene before facing PSG le Castrais?

Alexandre corboz