Two days after the insulting songs sung in the stands of the Nice stadium. Patrick Mignon, sociologist, lecturer at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales questions football clubs and French society in their way of considering supporters. For Patrick Mignon: “The first way to see things is to consider that we are dealing with a bunch of animals, brutes, which, in certain cases, is true [rires] but overall there is a world of supporters of which French football and French society in general do not know what to do”.
Find the right relationship with supporters
Sociologist Patrick Mignon explains:“We can’t find the right distance between the fact that we can consider it legitimate that the supporters love their club and have their say on the club, and the fact of having as answers only those that we give to the most dangerous elements “.