in immersion with the referee of the final Benoît Millot

Central referee of the Coupe de France final between Toulouse and Nantes (5-1), Saturday April 29, Benoît Millot was equipped with a microphone by the Stage 2 teams. These sequences, which make it possible to better understand his role, highlight a referee who does not hesitate to interact with the players. When the score was acquired and the match was tense, he called Nantes midfielder Samuel Moutoussamy to order, for example. “You are the one who creates the event!”he reproached him after vehement challenges.

In a match completed without major error and with a penalty whistled for Nantes and transformed by Ludovic Blas, Mr. Millot also often spoke English, so as to be better understood by the cosmopolitan workforce of Téfécé, which had no French player at kick-off. We also discover a man in black in constant communication with his assessors, on the sidelines as in the VAR truck.