The president of the Sporting, Javier Fernández, has reiterated the club’s decision to reject the tickets offered by the Oviedo for Saturday’s game, due to the harsh conditions that are established for the movement of fans, and has stated that “he does not understand” that the position of the Carbayones is not like the one defended by the rojiblancos. Sporting held a meeting on Tuesday at the Government Delegation to try that the controls were not so rigorous, but Fernández acknowledged that “there was no change in criteria.”
“We continue as in 2019 and we are not going to change our position,” he said about the fact that that year there were no rojiblancos fans in the game. Tartiere nor did the board of directors move. In his opinion, it is “surprising” that for that game you have to go so many hours in advance and are forced to stay several more after the match, so, again, he declined to go to the game “because we are with our fans.”
Fernández assured that he raised in the Government Delegation that they should pronounce on any other derby in which such rigorous measures were taken. It is absurd, it does not make sense, “said the leader, who does see logical” a control of the stands of animation”.
The president of Sporting recalled that “the one who broke relations was Oviedo after a derby in which they reported incidents that never transferred us in the 24 hours following the celebration of the match,” so he assured that it is that club that “must take the step to reset “the contacts.
“For the second round match, we will have to think about whether we make tickets available to Oviedo, but first we are going to think about our fans,” said Fernández who wants to wait and see “if by then there is any change in the Government Delegation” .
In this sense, he argued that these measures are not “discriminated” only the fans of Sporting, so is that of Oviedo, so he understands that the position of the blues “is not the same as ours to allow fans can travel normally. “
Fernández revealed that yesterday when the period for requesting tickets for the match in Oviedo closed there were more than a thousand requests, “but most of them conditional on how the controls were for travel.” The president wanted to “be prudent” when asked if redirecting the situation of the displacements of the fans is more in the hands of Real Oviedo or the Government Delegation. “If there is no agreement, it means that one of the parties does not want to and that leads the police to make decisions,” he said.
The rojiblanco president acknowledged that “it is difficult to find a solution that will satisfy everyone” about the fact that the Second Division does not stop when there are national team matches.
“Sporting will have its reasons,” says Oviedo
The Oviedo board of directors and APARO (Association of Peñas Azules) do applaud the security device and are willing to abide by it for the second round match. “We respect the decision of the Sporting council. They will have their reasons. At all times we wanted them to come and we would like the derby to be played normally, with both fans in the stands,” said the blue advisor Fernando Corral, who confirmed that the Atletico managers had already declined the possibility of going to the box. “Meal of directives? The question is answered by itself. If they do not come, there is no food,” explained the blue leader at the end of the meeting. The Oviedo council does plan to go to the El Molinón box for the second round match. The Oviedo fans, too, albeit with a protocol similar to the one presented for this match.
Delegation defends that it offered alternatives to shorten trips
The government delegate, Delia Losa, explained that the priority is to guarantee the safety of all attendees and recalled that Royal Decree 203/2010 – the Regulation for the prevention of violence, racism, xenophobia and intolerance in sport – determines that all fans from Sporting who buys any of the tickets must travel from Gijón to the Carlos Tartiere Stadium in buses of the security device.
Delia Losa considers that it is a necessary measure to guarantee safety and has recalled that in recent days it has offered measures to make the waiting time for displaced fans more flexible and shorter. The Delegate has urged all parties to work to reach an agreement for future matches so that the fans of the visiting team can enjoy the matches by reducing the wait on travel.
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