More than three months after the elimination of the Blues by South Africa, Antoine Dupont’s criticism of the refereeing earned the Toulouse player severe criticism.
While the Blues are 48 hours away from their first match in the Six Nations Tournament, the page on the World Cup has not yet turned. The XV of France had seen its dream of coronation shattered in the quarter-finals. The fault lies with the unsinkable South Africa, who ignored the domination of the Blues to win on the wire (29-28). Some also blame the refereeing of Ben O’Keeffe, designated primarily responsible for this defeat by some.
As soon as the match ended, Antoine Dupont was the first to point out the New Zealand whistle. “What did you think of the refereeing? It’s good to have an outside opinion…”, he told journalists, adding: “I don’t want to be angry and complain about the referee because he lost the match. But I’m not sure that the refereeing was up to the challenge today. » Virulent remarks which had been disavowed by the president of the French Rugby Federation but which left traces.
It wasn’t the referee who missed the aerial balls
And since the World Cup, there has been numerous criticism of refereeing, whether in the Top 14 or the Champions Cup. A situation that annoys Serge Blanco, the former back of the XV of France. “I hope this is just a temporary crisis. It is imperative to reconnect with the concept of the referee who is always right. We cannot always blame others to explain a failure”thus regretted Biarrot in the columns of Le Figaro, before addressing a well-felt tackle to Antoine Dupont about the defeat of the Blues against the Springboks.
« It was not the referee who missed the aerial balls and who was blocked against the Springboks, as far as I know, he cursed. I am like you, chauvinist, and I too have even complained like a thief against certain decisions taken. But the next morning, I realized that we had missed things and not done what we needed to do to pass. »
2024-01-31 09:12:44
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