President Caillot did not set off this weekend. And for good reason. “” As my colleagues say, the Var is useless except to cost us money “, Dixit the boss of the Stade de Reims which, last weekend, could have seen his team benefit from two penalties and could ultimately only see the damage: 0-1 defeat at the benefit of Strasbourg during a match of the 28th day of Ligue 1 led by Clément Turpin.
“” It is scandalous the arbitration of Mr. Turpin today. Even Strasbourg do not understand decisions. Things happen every weekstill plague Jean-Pierre Caillot. Mr. Turpin is one of those referees, who, because he has a world status, will never see the Var. It is not possible that the guys from the Var did not call it compared to all these game situations. »»
At the origin of this wrath, a Strasbourg hand in the non -verified surface while a re -friendly goal was refused to Junya Ito for the same reason in the process. But also and above all an Alsatian charge on the same Japanese striker in additional time. Without any alert at the Var level. Negligence recognized this Wednesday by the arbitration department.
“A viewing by the field was expected”
“” The images first show that the Strasbourg defender (Valentin Barco, editor's note) is completely disinterested in the ball in most of the latter's trajectory, since he mainly looks at the attacker (Junya Ito, editor's note), to which he travels runningnotes the instance in its weekly report.
He then decides to get in touch with the Rémois striker using the hip and the right arm, with a load made while the ball is not at a distance of play and a movement of the arm that seeks to spread his opponent. In accordance with the laws of the game, this intervention corresponds to a fault committed by imprudence. The analysis of the video referee is summary and insufficient: a viewing by the field was expected to correct the initial decision and resume the game by a penalty. »»
On the shared file, the responsibility of Mathieu Vernice, a video assistant referee that evening, is glaring since the interested party specifies to Clément Turpin that ” The control is finished Without inviting the latter to view the images of the Strasbourg fault. Not enough to appease the president of the Champagne club who was toned thus: ” We are told every month: “Yes, there was an error, you saw we are honest, we recognize that we were wrong”. Yes but they are wrong and it doesn't change anything on their pay sheet. We have clubs, with a football situation which is complicated and in the end, we are in the red! With the unique defeat, Reims ended up in the red zone, in a barragist position.
