Boli-di Meco, the improbable fight at OM

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By: Manu Tournoux

The Rabiot affair at OM will have had the merit of untying languages. If not that of the main interested party. This Monday on RMC, Eric Di Meco commented on the burning Marseille news when returning to an episode you hitherto. Admitting a violent altercation between Basile Boli and himself on the day of the 1993 Champions League final.

“” Batstaths in the locker room, we have all known it! Fortunately, today's leaders were not leaders at the time, otherwise I would not have played the final of the Champions League, Basile either, because we fought on the bus starting from the Vélodrome stadium to go to Munich “Breathe the former lateral defender of the Olympians.

“” He read the newspaper, I lit him with a lighter, it was the bullshit we were doing, and there was a fight on the busdevelops Eric de Meco. Fortunately, the leaders of the time were perhaps less inclined to the institution and everything, because suddenly, we were on the ground and Basile marked (OM 1-0 victory over AC Milan, editor's note)… ”

Rabiot case, Papin not believe it

In the eyes of the former three -color international, the Marseille management has not said everything. “” We were taken for hams, he claims. I don't believe the club version. (…) For me, it's wind, it's flank. We were told that the locker room was shocked by the fight. But I remain convinced that the Höjbjerg and others had to say to themselves: “How is it possible to turn a player for that?” “They were rather shocked by what we did in Rabiot. Today, we know that the locker room and the coach will welcome it properly, because for them, it is an epiphenomenon that often arrives. »»

A clear opinion shared by another historic Olympian: Jean-Pierre Papin. “” I agree with Eric, we don't know everythingdixit the former goalscorer of OM. Me too, fights, I saw it, I have known. And it is very often adjusted in the locker room, with the coach and the players, possibly the president. (…) The problem of this story is that we know supposedly a lot. There was an altercation, there was this, there was that … But the players did not speak too much. Rowe, we didn't hear it. Rabiot, we didn't hear it either. I know Adrien well, I rubbed shoulders with him last year. He is someone with simplicity and total discretion. It really surprised me to see what happened and what I said. It is not the Adrien Rabiot that I know. »»