The victory of Saint-Etienne (2-1) in the derby against the Lyon rival on Sunday, has not finished talking. And not only due to the match stopping for 45 minutes following the jet of a room on an assistant referee. A bad gesture that could have heavy consequences for the malicious supporter, judged in October, as for the Greens, under the threat of a removal of points.
If the match caused very strong reactions, it is also because of the decision of François Letexier, after intervention by the Var, to cancel the red card given to Lucas Stassin after his sole on Corentin Tolisso. And this despite images, however edifying.
The reversal of the Breton referee is going all the more bad as the Stéphane striker would score the winning goal a few minutes later, offering three eminently precious points in the maintenance race since thanks to this Victory Saint-Etienne returned to Le Havre, the current barragist, only ahead of goals.
Le Havre shouts in scandal
Seen from Normandy, this arbitration error is a real scandal. “” Sincerely, I lived it very badlywas therefore indignant Didier Digard, the HAC coach at a press conference. I think it was an error on our part of “Make small”, To accept to be the little one, to accept all these decisions that have been against us. I'm not saying it would have changed things. But I think that today we have reached a point where it becomes really very complicated and it plays far too much on the situation and the future. Of course it is a shame when we see the sanction that he could have junior (Mwanga) for the same fault (expulsion against Toulouse, February 23, and suspension of two firm matches)
And that it ends with a yellow. »»
“It is not at all against this referee, even if it was the same who put red to junior. It is going well with him, there is communication, he is a very good referee. Nor is it against Saint-Etienne. It is more on the accumulation of things. It's really for Le Havre, my club, our situation. It's distressing and disturbing ”, he continued, adding again: “When there is no debate like that, yes, this is not a question of interpretation. No way. It's a mistake. And it is we who pay this error. ”
And Didier Digard is all the more reassembled as he also does not understand François Letexier's decision to have taken over the meeting after the play received at the head by the touch referee.
“Everything disturbed me, these are two absolutely lunar decisions, he castigated. It is said that the errors are balanced over a season but in fact no, it has never balanced. The president (Jean-Michel Roussier) is very committed to many subjects, we cannot ask him to always go to fire, because it is always delicate, and we know that these are things where we are exposed. Management is also very taken by all sporting issues. So it's hard to say. But I think little by little, we might should have done it a little harder. We did it, we were listened to, we were entitled to apologies. But we were never public. On the other hand, as soon as they are the others, it is public, there are press releases. When it's Le Havre, never. No one knows. This is what bothers me. To lack consideration. »»
