If you have something you are not too proud of this morning (you had the last coffee, you stole the neighbour’s pen or you forgot an important appointment), here is a lesson in apologies offered by the government after the Champions League final fiasco.
The bigger it is, the more it’s acceptable. First excuse therefore: it is the fault of the English, who first arrived too late, then too all together or too much at the same time, or too drunk. Then finally there were too many in fact, so it’s the fault of whoever told them to come: “The Liverpool coach a few days ago called on his supporters to come to France, even without a ticket” asserted Gérald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior. Wait, you’re still not going to tell people to come to a Champions League final? Are you crazy or what, Klopp?
Then you can completely throw in a random number, like “30,000 or 40,000 people without a ticket”. At that point, like the new Minister of Sports Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, you can point out a responsibility, obviously not yours: “UEFA, which was piloting this event, accepted that there was no exclusive use of the mobile application, which would have allowed for tamper-proof tickets”.
If at this point you are at the end of your argument, you can branch off and choose another tactic, that of my favorite editorialist Luc Ferry:
The festival continues #Benzema pic.twitter.com/Qts78Te27c
— Goaldorak (@Goaldorak2) May 30, 2022
It’s Karim Benzema’s fault! The conclusion of this lesson is that the easiest way is to say: “It’s not me, it’s him.”fter everything, we are in the middle of Roland-Garros, it is quite normal to pass the buck.