Concerned about maintaining “sporting fairness”, Pablo Longoria hammers home this Monday the need to play the L1 match between OM and OL in public and at the Vélodrome.
Again. After contacting the Disciplinary Commission of the Professional Football League (LFP) – in vain since the latter judged the incidents of October 29 not attributable to OM – OL impatiently awaits the verdict of the Disciplinary Commission. appeal from the French Football Federation (FFF), which will study the case this Tuesday.
As a reminder, after the stone crushing of their bus and the serious injury to the face of Gones coach Fabio Grosso, the Lyonnais do not wish to go to Marseille and are pleading for a total closed session on neutral ground on December 6 – the date of the rescheduling of Olympico aborted by the LFP Competitions Commission.
An obviously unthinkable scenario for OM president Pablo Longoria. “ If security is guaranteed, all teams must play under the same conditions. We must respect the sporting fairness of the championship and for that, we must play at the Vélodrome with lots of people », Says the Spanish manager, relayed by Agence France Presse, on the sidelines of the signing of a partnership between OM and the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region.
“We have to gain height”
“ We condemned these deplorable and unacceptable acts from the first secondcontinues Pablo Longoria. We took a very firm position. We must gain height, we must not defend individual positions. If we do that, get into individual battles between clubs, we will never make progress on the security issues that we see everywhere in football and not just in Marseille. It’s a common fight. (…) I would like there to still be the conditions which allow OM supporters to go outside and those of other clubs to come to the Vélodrome. We play football to put on a show in which everyone can participate. We are all responsible for ensuring that this can be done in the best conditions. We must all work together so that safety is the priority in all L1 and L2 clubs. »
