The president of Stade de Reims accused Olivier Létang of intervening in the referee’s locker room during the match between the Champagne club and LOSC. But this is all false.
Refereeing is at the heart of many debates currently in Ligue 1, and this is starting to provoke controversies, some of which are completely unjustified. The latest, that caused by Jean-Pierre Caillot, after his team’s defeat on Saturday against Lille (0-1) at Auguste-Delaune. In the wake of this negative result, the boss of Stade de Reims had accused, in the local press, Olivier Létang of having put pressure on the referee by inviting himself into the locker room during the break. “ At the break, the referees received a visit from the Lille president in their locker room. I think this is not trivial. According to what I know, he would have liked our defender Thérence Koudou to receive a red card rather than a yellow for his mistake at the start of the match. Pressure strike or not, the fact remains that the referee completely took himself out of his game in the second half, forgetting to whistle a penalty », affirmed Jean-Pierre Caillot. However, the reality is quite different, reveals L’Equipe, which scraps the Reims leader’s version.
The LOSC boss did not slip up in Reims
𝙑𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙞𝙧𝙚 !!
Our Mastiffs leave with the three points in this game marked by Jonathan David’s goal 😍#SDRLOSC 0-1 | 90’
— LOSC (@losclive) March 2, 2024
If Olivier Létang met Jérémy Stinat and his assistants, it was 30 minutes after the final whistle of the match and not during the break. Furthermore, he did not come on his own initiative to the referees’ locker room, but would have requested authorization from the latter via the LFP delegates, who would have attended the discussion so as not to leave room for speculation. on the content of the Lille leader’s remarks. “ He left satisfied with the explanations given to him and he was very friendly and cordial with his interlocutors », specifies the sports daily, thus twisting the neck of the declaration of Jean-Pierre Caillot who in the heat of the action was probably wrong about the timing of this meeting. Enough to bring the manager-referee relationship to the forefront during and after matches.
2024-03-04 21:02:24
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