Football (New Aquitaine League). FC Marmande en route to R1?

It is a soap opera that has been agitating the hen D of R2 since February, a period when the FC Marmande club has detected an anomaly on the license of a Girondin player, namely an error of transcription of his identity. The League where the affair was brought, initially, right, the Girondin club, arguing that the body had its share of responsibility in this case since it must verify all the licenses before validating them. “We are not cheaters,” we explain on the side of Lormont, and we will fight to the end to assert our good faith. »»

After a call at the League level which finally asked the Lormont club to replay six games at the end of the season, which the latter refused, the case was brought to the French Football Federation which therefore returned its verdict this Friday, May 9 in favor of FC Marmande. “There was a response that goes beyond the regional body,” comments Lyazid Bahlali, co-president of the Lot-et-Garonnais club. In Paris, the interests of Lormont or Marmande do not come into account. We therefore have a neutral decision that is content to rely on the regulations. As a result, Lormont therefore loses his six games on a green carpet, one of which is facing the Marmandais who find themselves powered at the top of their R2 pool.

Lormont seizes the Cnosf

“It would take a disaster on the last day so that the accession escapes us, namely a defeat combined with a victory of the SU Agen with a gap of thirteen goals,” said the leader. Only, if the Marmandais won this return match at the level of the instances, an extension inevitably seems to be looming, as the Gironde leaders indicate by the mouth of their secretary Patrice Thébault: “We are waiting for the notification of the Federation and we will defend our case with the CNOSF. If that is not enough, we will go to the administrative court. We pay a service to the League which has not done its job, and we should not pay the broken pots. »»

We must hope, in this context, that a final decision will be rendered before summer, which, we understand it well, does not seem to be won in advance …