The controversial statements of the president of OM Pablo Longoria in Auxerre last weekend caused an uproar and a bunch of shields among the French referees. Quite in question in their integrity and their probity, the officials have chosen to reply on the legal ground, by splitting a collective appeal for defamation, denouncing an climate increasingly hostile to them.
However, former referee Saïd Ennjimi regrets the lack of questioning among his former colleagues. “” It's been several months that it has been agitated “, He observes on RMC, while noting that” The balance of power between referees and leaders on and outside the land Always existed. “” In this balance of power, it is rather to those who have power, therefore to the referees, to try to temper. It is true that the Marseillais did not have very favorable decisions but the way of behaving vis-à-vis them can also be improved He says.
The Var does not help
In this, the person concerned who became a consultant for the team in particular claims more dialogue. In particular in the field. “”
We can have a slightly more peaceful human relationship with the players in the game. It is during the match that the relationship between the referees and the players and the coaches must be more peaceful. I find the referees a little too repressive. They should be more in communication and appeasement towards players. »»
Same thing from his point of view with the leaders. “” It would have been better to approach Medhi Benatia and try to chat with him and try to appease him. Or else, if you are in the repressive, you have to be right every time. Unfortunately, Olivier Létang was not excluded … », Underlines Saïd Ennjimi, in reference to the suspension inflicted on the OM sports director at the end of the Coupe de France match between Marseille and Lille. And the former referee to conclude his interview with a reflection on the Var: ” Too much can be able to blur the tracks a little. Let the referees be wrong normally. At least the context of dishonesty does not exist. It was said of me that I was bad, not dishonest …
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