Having become the emblematic face of the football club canal before being dismissed following the revelations made on the occasion of the broadcast of Marie Portolano's documentary “I am not a slut, I am a journalist”Pierre Ménès has long been one of the big names in the team's football pages. The journalist worked there for more than twenty years, following in particular the French team and Arsenal where an important tricolor colony officiated.
Pierre Ménès then became close to Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira, Robert Pirès and others. So much so that he did not hesitate, in the fall of 2004, to invent an interview with the former Messin for the needs of The team. A revelation made in one of his chronicles on his YouTube channel.
An invented but reread interview
“I have an anecdote with Robert Pirès. There is the match against Ireland at the Stade de France, a rotten match with the French team who plays 5 defenders, well in short, anything. And at the time, we had to have a complete interview page of a sportsman in the team. And this time, it is required that it is a player of the French team. Except that the next day in Clairfontaine, there are only replacements, which is quite classic, but there is no matter to do an interview “, He said to start.
“So we all hunt a player. The pressure was starting to go up, and I say: “I can do Pirès”. Except that I do not know why, but that day, Pirès was unreachable ”, he continued, adding: “So, I start to do the interview alone. Robert, I spoke to him two or three times in the week and I spoke to him very regularly at Arsenal. So I could afford this freedom. I finish, and there miracle, I have Robert on the phone. I still read the interview to him, it seems to me to be the least of things. It does not seem to me that he has changed anything. »»
