“My decision was always to stop the match”, assures Ruddy Buquet, the referee of the match

From start to finish, the match between Lyon and Marseille, Sunday, November 21, was the scene of ubiquitous situations. From the bottle throwing on Dimitri Payet’s head, to the two-hour wait before the meeting was definitively interrupted, to the reactions of the two club presidents, nothing happened normally. Rare thing, at the end of the meeting, Ruddy Buquet, the man in black of the evening, spoke on Prime Video.

“I would have liked it to have happened differently”, he first said. “My sporting decision has always been not to resume the game. I maintain that this has always been my position. After that there are many considerations to take into account, such as having a full stadium, the evacuation of players, these are important parameters. “ And to insist: “My decision was to stop the game. We have to protect the players in football.”