Is there a problem with OM this season? The management of the Marseille club is convinced of this, criticizing the authorities and the referees extremely severity and a lack of coherence in the decisions taken and sanctions pronounced. Last episode to date, a letter addressed to the technical direction of arbitration to be surprised by the designation of Mr. Stinat to direct the meeting this weekend between Auxerre and Marseille. This while the referee in question is at the origin of the suspension for three months of the Olympian sports director Medhi Benatia.
This week on the evening team set, Ludovic Obraniak admitted to understand the questions of OM management, himself evoking ” shady Observed in the various matches involving the men of Roberto de Zerbi, then in the disciplinary management of thorny cases. The new controversy as to Var operators does not fail to challenge in turn.
The Var center in the viewfinder
The revelations of Massilia Zone on the subject did not go unnoticed. “” The Marseillais complain of an operator Var who “posted publicly on his social networks his passion for PSG and his disenchantment (not to say more) towards Olympique de Marseille”we can read this Thursday in the Pages of the Team. This situation had already been pointed out by the club with the arbitration management, which had replied according to our information that it was its “best element”. »»
An answer obviously which cannot satisfy OM, the individual in question having attended video arbitration on nine times already this season in a meeting involving Marseille, including the classic OM-PSG. “” In support of the central referee and his assistants on the ground, the Var system includes a video referee, a video assistant referee, one or two operators, up to three in major competitions. The Var center is in Paris, in a secret place. The operator Var is a video technician, whose role is to cut and stall the sequences, by choosing the right camera angles, so that the video referee, and ultimately the field referee can make the best decisions “Recalls the team.
