Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Marseille: a divorce with the fans that could weigh – Le Berry Républicain

A clash that never ends … For several weeks, OM is at war with his supporters, embittered by the unworthy season of their team which they make responsible the owner Margarita Louis-Dreyfus and its president, a volcanic situation that may poison the end of the season.

“This is a city that lives for football, for . A team see the whole season like that, they go crazy. “: this phrase Basile Boli, the former OM icon, sums up the terms of the divorce

Marseille n ‘ is only 6 points of the relegation zone with five games remaining, with a delicate negotiating timetable (including Monaco, Nantes and Angers in the program). The nightmare scenario of a new L2 downhill is in range, but despite the vertigo of such a tragedy for this city that oozes football on every street corner, no revolt visible on the ground.

Despite promises of a start, OM still sank against Bordeaux on Sunday rather lucky to even get a point after the draw indigent (0-0). The anger of the fans, which rises gradually for weeks in a city where football has always had a special dimension, thus not back down.

extreme voltage sign that now surrounds the matches of the OM, the players had to be escorted by police after the game, and the people still in the stadium there were confined minutes .

– goats the ball –

the series of placards caricaturing players goats to the tune of Benny Hill’s show in the southern corner during the game Sunday, guided by a caricature of Margarita Louis-Dreyfus, appears to have had more success than the timid performance of the players.

“it was the the most interesting moment of the evening Car in the field, there was nothing to see. “quips Deukmeudjian Gilbert, Chairman of the central supporters Club, who was not at the Velodrome Sunday,” because I’m tired and I expecting what happened on the field. ” He has followed his television before this OM-Bordeaux.

On Thursday, after a week of discontent of fans who demanded the departure of Margarita Louis-Dreyfus, Michael’s coach had tweeted after meeting together players in an attempt to calm: “We work very hard to try to win all the remaining matches” (sic)

But it did not really see.. At the end of the match, the court of the Velodrome has witnessed a scene that could be repeated: a police charge against some 200 supporters who were late to return home, brooding discontent

-. “OM Poor” –

While they were watching the eventual passage of club president Vincent Labrune, target of widespread anger they believed see it through the window of a vehicle, which caused their dependents immediately countered by the intervention of the security forces backed by jets of tear.

According to supporters’ associations, these are reactions to “independent” no connection with them. “They are more dangerous because nobody can hold accountable and personally I’m not a Canadair We arrived at a complicated stage and I said..! Poor OM,” said Gilbert Deukmedjian, Chairman of the Central Supporters Club, in the daily La Marseillaise.

the disenchantment is especially supporters club leaders. Michel had lined his whistle at kick-off but has not been insulted then, while Labrune he received insults lined all evening.

After the game, few players lingered with the media. Benjamin Mendy has launched in the wings: “There is nothing to say you have seen on the ground!”

Basile Boli, Ambassador of OM, s’. is made the spokesman of the club in an attempt to reduce tension. “The fans are right 100%, it was thought that they (players, Ed) would give themselves fully and there is more than sad.” In short everyone agrees about the disease, remains to find the cure …

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