AS Saint-Etienne welcomes this weekend the RC Lens, a real sensation this season in Ligue 1. On this occasion, the ASSE received wonderful news.
ASSE: End of the 5,000-seat gauge at Geoffroy-Guichard!
It is a soap opera that never ceases to agitate French football. After an upsurge in Covid-19 cases in our country, the government recently decided to drastically limit the number of supporters in sports arenas. If this decision has enough to impact the energy and the emotion of a meeting, it especially weakens the meager savings of our French clubs, which since the pandemic, for the most part are drowning in debt.
In the midst of the sporting and financial crisis, theAS Saint-Etienne illustrates perfectly this type of entity, strongly affected by the reduction in the number of supporters in the stadiums. If this government decision was enough to make French football roar, which considered this decree rash and without any real basis, that should quickly change to the delight of the supporters.
On Tuesday, the Senate decided to relax this decree, by introducing proportional gauges, which moreover, revised upwards: ” The Senate adopts the amendment which establishes proportional gauges in stadiums and performance halls: in addition to the current 5,000 places, clubs will be able to open 50% of the remaining places. “This is excellent news for ASSE, which will therefore be able to receive 23,500 supporters this weekend for the shock against the RC Lens. Note, however, that this amendment is part of the bill ” vaccine pass “which must be voted on to be fully adopted.
Against Blood and Gold, the Greens will be refereed by Mr. François Letexier, this is the second time this season that he will referee a Saint-Etienne match after the sulphurous ASSE-OL derby. The opportunity for Pascal Dupraz to line up his recent recruits Sada Thioub and Paul Bernardoni, hopefully awaiting the arrival of a great striker in the Loire …