What is your first feeling after the end of this match?Laurent Nicollin: There is disgust, disillusionment and sadness when we lead 4-2 five minutes from the end of added time and you are potentially in 6th place. It’s a feeling of disgust after some asshole throws something on the lawn. The players busted their asses for 30 minutes at ten against 11. With an asshole like that, it’s certain that we’re not likely to have any ambition. It becomes painful and tiring. I only hope that the Clermont goalkeeper is well and will be able to return with his teammates. I should have started with that.
Do you think there will be any legal consequences? The person has been arrested. What are legal consequences? He will be banned from the stadium. With French law, the more you do, the less we do to you. The supporter will stay at home. This shows that an isolated person can penalize a team. It’s not for lack of telling them that they must stop with their firecrackers and their smoke bombs. They don’t care, they continue. When you get involved in a club, it’s deplorable. We give a bad image of the club, an image that is not ours. Is there going to be a losing match? Will there be a replay? The (professional football) League will certainly summon us. There is a regulation. Instead of having 12 points, moving ahead with two consecutive victories and putting Clermont on ten points, we stay with our nine points and we will perhaps have penalty points. Instead of potentially being European, we risk going to Nantes perhaps being relegated. It’s ridiculous to be here because of an idiot. This is purely scandalous. For once we can get on well with a season, we will struggle and we will play for survival. I want to dialogue, but dialogue has its limits. You don’t argue with people like that.
Some believe that the guard had nothing. What do you think?I’m not a doctor and that’s not the question. We don’t have to go on the pitch like in Bordeaux, we don’t have to throw things at anyone. People can say whatever they want, but it’s just human respect. A firecracker fell five feet from the guard, this will have consequences. We don’t have to throw something from the depths of the stand at a player, whether he’s from Clermont, Montpellier or anywhere. We are educated, we are not here to throw something at people.
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