Ah this match! This is The game of the season, THE BIG MATCH moreover with a double stake of size. Some will play for a place in Europe, others neither more nor less than the title of champion of France. So as much to say that the passion is exacerbated by the context and that the tension rises every minute of a notch for this derby Lens-Lille on Friday evening that everyone hopes for grandiose.
On the road from Groffliers to Berck, facing the various car dealerships, the allotment gardens have resumed their springtime rhythm. From these small plots of land emerges a flag. Standard Sang et Or is up. Jacques is proud of his flame. “My children gave it to me, but I asked a seamstress to make a nice hem to prevent it from fraying in the wind.” At 72 years old, Jacques Thuillier, also nicknamed Patate, follows the RC Lens for years like his children and like many supporters on the Opal Coast. “This flag has been in place for a good fifteen years” underlines the gardener, “I have to change it twice a year because of the wind and bad weather”. Five meters above the onions, leeks and potatoes, the Sang et Or fabric can be seen from afar.“In summer when there are traffic jams, I often hear horn blasts and ALLEZ LENS shouted by motorists”. And that amuses him.
Good neighborhood but real rivalry
But Jacques also has to deal with an element, let’s say … disruptive. His neighbor in the garden doesn’t quite agree with him when they start talking about football. Frédéric is a fan of LOSC. “We get a little room but it’s still good child. But we are still in the confrontation, at least verbal ”.
As the long-awaited derby approached by both camps, the two men nevertheless agreed on one point and savored aloud and slightly mockingly, the poor performance of the players of the PSG in the Champions League. “At least it happened. We may not hear less about the Parisians and a little more about the derby ” consider the two northern supporters together.
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