The Martinique Football League has announced its intention to open an investigation after the unprecedented and suspicious results of two Regional 2 matches which ended with scores of 20-0 and 21-0. On Saturday evening, CS Vauclinois beat SC Lamentinois 20-0, while Stade spiritain won against ASC Hirondelle by 21 goals to 0 as part of the 22nd day of the Regional 2 amateur championship.
“The results observed are sufficiently plausible to imagine that arrangements or collusion could have taken place between certain clubs”, judged in a press release issued on Sunday the Martinican League, which decided to “trigger the appropriate actions which will make it possible to all the light on these events. “At this stage, however, clarified the regional body, there is no reason to accuse anyone of reprehensible acts.”
Asked about Radio Caraïbes International (RCI), the captain of CS Vauclinois, Jonathan Gabriel Régis, categorically dismissed the scenario of an arrangement. “We had to play like that, we met a team that had nothing to play for,” he commented. “On the other side, we knew that Stade Spiritain was meeting a team that was already doomed, who had nothing to play for,” he added.
The board of directors of the Martinican League must meet on Tuesday to decide on the possible continuation of the investigations. The League indicated that it planned to seize the regional commission of education and discipline and that it did not exclude seizing the public prosecutor of Fort-de-France in the event of finding of proven criminal offenses, in view of “the manifest disorder created” and the “risks of discrediting the authorities, even the entire discipline”.
The offending clubs risk several sanctions, the president of the League, Samuel Perreau, told AFP on Monday. “It can range from a simple call to order to the loss of points and even demotion,” he detailed.