Jean-Pierre Caillot, your club has again suffered unfavorable arbitration decisions…
I am delighted with what our team has shown and I am especially frustrated and disappointed for our players, because I repeat it every week, there is a problem with French refereeing. When I told the referee at the end that they sucked, he wrote it down in his notebook, so I’ll probably be suspended for that. But it was I think the vision of the 16,000 people who were in the stadium. They make mistake after mistake, it’s always the wrong decisions on the wrong side. This expulsion of Dion Lopy, it hurts and it breaks the game. So it’s fed up (very angry, editor’s note), I know that the small clubs have to go down this year, but it’s fed up. Mr. Garibian (technical director of French arbitration, editor’s note), instead of going to television sets and explaining that everything is fine, should explain to his troops that arbitration, every week, on all terrains must be the same, for everyone. Because I am convinced that if it is Paris Saint-Germain or Lyon who are at fault in the area, there is a penalty (report of the contact between Falorin Balogun and the Lyon goalkeeper in the first half, editor’s note). And us, there is no penalty. Two weeks ago, we expelled our defender who is in midfield because he is the last defender. Last week, in Strasbourg, in the area, the opposing defender was not expelled, so things are starting to do well. I do not impugn their intentions, but at least that the decisions are the same everywhere. There is enough of this French arbitration (very angry, editor’s note)!
Do you have the impression of a two-level arbitration? We can think of Maxence Caqueret who could have taken a second yellow card?
Of course, but it’s like that every week. (He insists). It’s like that every week, in every way, at all stages! And we are told that French arbitration is the best. I’m sorry, but our referees don’t referee the same way.
What do you think should be done?
Already they are questioning themselves, and their boss too. I have been questioning myself for twenty years in football. He would do well to do the same.