FC Annecy will ask the Rodez club “reparation for its financial loss” if it were to be relegated to National, announced Sunday the president of the Haut-Savoyard club, Sébastien Faraglia, adding that his lawyers have been commissioned in this sense. The Bordeaux-Rodez match was stopped on Friday with a score of 1-0 for the visitors after the striker was attacked by a spectator during the 38th and last day of Ligue 2.
The Haute-Savoie club, currently 16th and maintained, would be relegated to National (3rd div.), if the three points of victory are awarded to Rodez, who would at the same time snatch its maintenance in L2. The result of the meeting has not yet been confirmed. A decision will be taken on Monday by the Disciplinary Committee of the Professional Football League (LFP), which can give Rodez a 3-0 victory on the green carpet or have the match replayed.
“Taking advantage of external events to profit from them, such as maintaining your club, by betraying football, is contrary to sporting ethics”, underlines the leader in a press release published by the FCA. “We will not accept Rodez winning this match on green carpet because it is the most elaborate form of cheating, which is very serious,” said Sébastien Faraglia.
“Let him win on the field and we will congratulate them as we did for our competitors today maintained. This is why, the shareholders and myself, if FC Annecy were relegated, we have already commissioned our law firm to seek compensation for our financial loss to the Rodez club. “The LFP has regulations that we respect, but if a club lies to the League, it must assume its actions before the criminal and civil courts,” he concluded in his statement released by FC Annecy. “In any case, the match must be replayed,” Sébastien Faraglia had already declared to AFP the day before.
“I have an opinion on the images I have seen, on the position of common sense and ethics. We cannot close a championship with such a stake on a decision which would give a match won on green carpet which, consequently, condemns another club. There is a fairness that must be held, ”he pleaded.
