Last Tuesday, Sidney Govou commented on the semi-final go to the Champions League between Arsenal to Paris Saint-Germain (0-1), on Canal+. The sports consultant did not hide his enthusiasm in front of the often enticing game proposed by the capital's club.
Unfortunately, some viewers, in particular supporters of Olympique Lyonnais and Olympique de Marseille, insulted it on social networks for this reason. The former tricolor international (49 selections) had to get out of his reserve to answer them, both on X and in the columns of the Parisian.
This Friday, Habib Beye wanted to defend Sidney Govou.
“What people forget is that when you do this job, you have to have passion. And passion leads to excess. And the excess leads to favoritism. When you comment on a French team in the Champions League, it is not the same thing as commenting on two clubs in Ligue 1. there is necessarily a bias ”, explained the coach of Stade Rennais, at a press conference.
Beye is the lawyer for Govou
Since the beginning of 2025, Sidney Govou has replaced Habib Beye as a sports consultant on Canal+ for the most important matches in the Champions League. Indeed, the latter could no longer occupy this place after being appointed coach of the Breton club on January 30.
“The enthusiasm that Sidney showed is a magnificent enthusiasm, because he is a lover of football and game,
continues the Franco-Senegalese. So Sidney, continues. Continue to put this passion, because when you have no passion, you do not exist in this job, as for the profession of coach, such as the profession of journalist or all trades. Living without passion is to be dead. »»
