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By Ian Holyman
The Ligue 1 Podcast
Warning: This report contains.
It was a moment that has altered the face of football.
Play ceased in the Ligue 2 match at Nancy on 16 August not for a foul, however for abuse in the home fans, that rang round the Stade Marcel Picot on the mark.
The goal was not the evening’s competitions but rather Metz, who will be the Ligue 1 acquaintances in the Lorraine area of Nancy.
A scene announcement for fans to quit using the non -“les Messins, les messins, c’est des pedes”, that translates as”individuals from Metz, individuals from Metz, they are faggots” – went unheeded.
So Mokhtari took actions.
“it is an original,” France’s Sports Minister Roxana Maracineanu submitted on interpersonal networking. “And the last, I trust.”
Her desire hasn’t yet been granted.
Thus far, the LFP, the French Football League is investigating 18 matches. Several games have been interrupted, including the game on 28 August and also the Brest-Reims encounter . Some nightclubs, such as Lille and Marseille, have been awarded a dressing down for the behavior of the fans.
Maracineanu is at the heart of the initiative. In a Paris St-Germain v Marseille match last April, she was horrified by insults aimed by PSG fans at their rivals.
“It’s simply inadmissible to listen to the chants I noticed,” she explained. “I don’t see why we’d allow ourselves to do things at a stadium that we wouldn’t do elsewhere.”
Referees were instructed to halt games this year if incidents occur. “Everything that’s happening now was planned a long time prior to the ministry spoke,” said Bertrand Lambert, president of the anti-homophobia association PanamBoyz & Girlz, but he acknowledged Maracineanu’s words had been”an electric shock”.
They got the ball rolling, however, French soccer is through which kicked fractured.
“Why are we being singled out today if we’ve been singing it for 20 decades?” Said Jean-Michel Goncalves, a leading Nancy fans’ association figure. “We have got nothing against homosexuals. If we insult Metz, it is more about tradition” Nathalie Boy de la Tour, the LFP president, did not condone the songs, but hit a chord with fans when she said:”The majority do not think they’re hurting anyone.”
In a recent survey carried out to RTL, 61% of fans echoed that opinion.
France isn’t alone. At 2016, Cristiano Ronaldo – afterward at Real Madrid – has been told to”come out of the closet” by a few Barcelona fans. The newest Diego Maradona movie shows the Argentina legend teaching his young daughter to mention a homophobic sentence to Napoli’s Serie A rivals from the late 1980s, and also Mexico fans achieved notoriety at the 2018 World Cup at Russia for predicting opposition goalkeepers male prostitutes when they shot goal-kicks.
“To telephone your opponent homosexual is unquestionably along a spectrum of machismo, whereby your opponent is weaker – less manly,” Joshua Nadel, author of Futbol! Soccer Matters in Latin America, told the Guardian.
Maracineanu’s reaction mirrors that the sea change in social attitudes which produce such chants okay within stadiums when they have been frowned upon outside them, although it might be part of football folklore in countries.
However, her clear vision of what is wrong loses focus when it comes to the question of how to place it right.
“It’s not up for me to discover solutions,” she explained lately, but indicated in L’Equipe before this week that a record of homophobic words ought to be drawn up to give soccer government a clearer picture of what constitutes these abuse.
“I am not really at ease with this notion of a pre-defined list,” countered Frederic Potier, Inter-ministerial Delegate to the Fight against Racism, anti-Semitism and anti-LGBT. “Forbidding everything overnight will be dumb and would turn against us,” added Yoann Lemaire, president of the Foot Ensemble (Football Collectively ) association.
Opinions are merely as diverse among those around the pitch.
Wonderful midfielder Wylan Cyprien stated it was”absurd” to stop matches”for so small,” asserting the chants were”not aimed at gay people”. His manager, Patrick Vieira, believed referee Clement Turpin was”totally right” to block the game with Marseille, an opinion shared by OM captain Steve Mandanda, who stated:”You need to make a stand and after that it quits.”
The problem is the rack of the LFP.
The Piantoni stand at the floor of Nancy was closed up to now the sole punishment, for one match.
Should they go further and dock teams things?
“I don’t think so,” explained Lille trainer Christophe Galtier. “Why do you want to punish players that are neither indifferent nor homophobic since there is just one, 10, or even 100 individuals who’ve racist or homophobic reactions in the racks?”
Using all the onus on referees to prevent matches without any apparent guidelines, inconsistencies have been numerous and only fans’ anger and confusion. A meeting had been due to take place on Thursday, but had been pushed back by fans’ groups, that want before widening the discussion, to consider the issue.
The overall disposition, however, is optimistic.
“We will need to have applicable rules which are employed everywhere and for everyone,” said Lambert. “But for that, we will need to talk to one another, away from the cameras and with no politics. I am optimistic, we will arrive.”
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