After the team’s victory against UBB (59-3) this Friday evening at the Vélodrome stadium, during the Top 14 final, Ugo Mola did not hesitate to address certain remarks.
Toulouse largely dominated UBB this Friday evening (59-3), during the Top 14 final. The red and black club won its 23rd Brennus shield and achieved a new Top 14-Europe championship double after 1996 and 2021. Coach Ugo Mola returned to the match in a press conference and sent a message… which was out of the ordinary: “We will try to take advantage of it and then we will obviously prepare for the rest because we were already highly anticipated. We were a bit of a nuisance considering what I heard here and there, some comments on the refereeing that were not very well received by certain commentators who sincerely would have done better to shut their mouths,” he hammered home to the press.
Bloody remarks which seem to have been aimed, according to La Dépêche, at journalist Pierre Salviac, rugby commentator at France Télévisions. The audiovisual group had dismissed him in 2005.
A message posted on X that caused this anger?
Why did Ugo Mola make these comments? The journalist specializing in oval balls had posted a message on his X account (formerly Twitter) concerning the semi-final (June 21) between Toulouse and La Rochelle, won 39-23 by the Toulouse club.
Pierre Salviac had questioned the bias of the match referee, Tual Trainini: “Is Mr. Trainini, referee of Toulouse vs La Rochelle, an Airbus employee as is being whispered in my ear? Please answer! When will you referee you this debate President Bouscatel (president of the LNR)?” Words which, visibly, stuck in Ugo Mola’s throat.
