“There is a crowd phenomenon that must also be taken into account,” says Thibauld Leplat, editor-in-chief of “L’After foot”

Homophobia is a recurring problem in football. How to explain this situation ? “When you follow football a lot (…), at the moment, you don’t realize it. The phenomenon we are dealing with here is a crowd phenomenon. And the principle of the crowd is that the crowd is not necessarily characterized by its intelligence or its avant-garde“, estimated Thibauld Leplat, editor-in-chief of “L’After foot”, on the set of 19/20 info, Tuesday September 26.

“Words that we can no longer pronounce”

“When I hear that we may indeed have to suspend stands, take measures, we are talking about 10,000, 20,000 people. Are we going to send 20,000 people to a police station? It does not mean anything“, says the journalist. Furthermore, according to him, homophobic remarks “seem more unbearable now than they did 20 years ago“.”There are words that we can no longer pronounce.”he concludes.