“This gangrene will kill us if we do not react urgently”, reacts the president of the LFP Vincent Labrune

In the aftermath of the events in Lyon, the president of the Professional Football League (LFP) spoke on Monday in the columns of The team. If he says to himself “shocked and furious” so much by the spray of a bottle “imbecile” that by waiting nearly two hours to make the decision to stop the match, Vincent Labrune also explains that the League had anticipated this kind of event.

While the LFP is accused of laxity by a good number of observers, he denounces, without naming them, the lack of listening of the public authorities. “IIt was not until yesterday’s incidents (Sunday) that the meeting with the ministers, which we have been calling for since August, is finally organized, in this case Place Beauvau (Ministry of the Interior) tomorrow morning (Tuesday morning), deplores the former president of OM. It is urgent to get together all together. These events are inadmissible and also ruin all the sporting and economic recovery work that has been carried out in parallel by the LFP and the clubs for a year “.

While the match and its adventures are now also played on the media, Vincent Labrune reacted to the recent words of Jean-Michel Aulas, who indicates that he would be “dishonest” to request a withdrawal of points from the home club, namely Olympique Lyonnais. “Already, it’s something that I understand. I was president of OM for six years and it happened to me, especially in a Marseille-Lyon, epic at the time. same type of reaction as Jean-Pierre (Rivère, the president of OGC Nice who had mitigated the role of his supporters during the incidents against Marseille) and Jean-Michel “, tempers the one who led OM between 2011 and 2016.