The comments of the former Mayor of Lyon on a match arranged between Lyon and Montpellier in 2003 caused a stir, even if the politician’s memory is visibly failing. The former president of OM testified on his side.
In a testimony which was to pay tribute to his friend Jean-Michel Aulas, Gérard Collomb dropped a small bombshell by explaining that the May 2003 match between Montpellier and Lyon had resulted in an arranged draw between the two teams, since it allowed the Hérault club to maintain itself while ensuring OL a new league title. Enough to cast suspicion on an always delicate end to the season when the stakes are enormous, and a common result can suit two teams. No need for a money transaction for that, it was above all the complicity between Louis Nicollin, a native of Lyon and Jean-Michel Aulas, who was pointed out.
A not-so-convenient draw for OL
This assertion, slipped as a tease by the former mayor of Lyon, was nevertheless initially denied by his memory, since even a draw did not guarantee the title at all to OL, but it helped Montpellier save themselves from a possible descent. In a very tight Ligue 1, everything could still happen, and this draw, if it suited everyone, could also have caused harm to OL, if Monaco had won at the same time.
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To discuss these statements, La Provence contacted Christophe Bouchet, who was none other than the president of OM at that time. For the manager, the proximity between Aulas and Nicollin is obvious, but nothing allows us to say anything about it. ” Unfortunately, the information does not particularly surprise me. I don’t fall out of my chair. The football community knows that there is regularly a solidarity of Ligue 1 clubs so that there is not one that falls in Ligue 2, because that is synonymous with hell. On this match, I have nothing to say, on Jean-Michel either. Is it a probability? Yes. Did it exist? I do not know. Nobody can say that. We know that these are high sensitivity matches “, delivered Christophe Bouchet, who clearly has no particular element and admits that OM were far from the battle for the title, simply trying to come back to Monaco in the race for second place.
