Bordeaux, which lost all chance of going up to Ligue 1 with the loss on the green carpet of the match against Rodez, will go on Friday morning “to defend its rights and sporting fairness” before the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF), a- we learned Wednesday from the club.
On June 12, the Disciplinary Committee imposed a triple sanction on the Girondins: “loss by penalty” of the match of the 38th and last day of L2 against Rodez after the aggression by a Girondin supporter of the Ruthenian striker Lucas Buades, “withdrawal of ‘a firm point’ for the following season and closure for two matches of the southern corner of the Matmut Atlantique stadium.
The Aquitaine club will go to the CNOSF on Friday at 11:30 a.m. with “two arguments to put forward”, it is said internally. First, Bordeaux wonders about the fairness of sanctions which are spread over two seasons: “If there must be a loss of points, why is it not in the season in question?”
The club also wonders about the “differential treatment” with Metz, who had only received a one-match suspension behind closed doors, without deducting a point, after the incidents of the match against Guingamp on September 12, “where certainly the Messin supporter had not reached the referee but he was clearly going there to fight it out”. During this meeting that the Messins ended at eight after three expulsions, a Lorraine supporter had left the low north stand to enter the lawn and had gone towards the referee, with a threatening attitude, according to the report of the delegate. The match had been interrupted for more than twenty minutes, the refereeing corps no longer feeling safe.
The disciplinary committee having noted “the intention of the supporter” who attacked Lucas Buades in the file concerning Bordeaux, the club “wants to know what is the case law, what is the line” in the matter. The opinion of the CNOSF, which is only advisory but often authoritative, is expected on Monday or Tuesday. Depending on this decision and what the LFP board of directors will do with it, the club of Gerard Lopez will have the possibility of seizing the appeal committee of the FFF, then possibly the administrative court. The Girondins are also preparing their passage before the National Management Control Department (DNCG) on June 28.
