The match bands of the match against Strasbourg sent to OM by the arbitration management

In its desire to open and dialogue with the clubs of the elite, the arbitration management (DA) invited, this Thursday afternoon, some leaders of Ligue 1. OM leaders did not could not answer it favorably, for the incompatibility of the calendar. They are however one of those who most question the arbitral decisions since the start of the season, considering themselves injured, sometimes rightly so, and not hesitating to go up to the niche in order to defend the interests of the institution . Latest example on Sunday, with the release of Pablo Longoria following a draw against Strasbourg, the president taking the wheel of his new football director, Medhi Benatia, who had again extricated his reserve five days earlier for denounce his exclusion against Lille, in the Coupe de France.

“Our role is to remain at a distance from the controversies, the media time is not that of the direction of arbitration. Communication and explanations come cold, from man to man, even if people do not necessarily agree. They also arrive in Tuesday debriefing“, Unrolls the old whistle Amaury Delerue, who became manager of men in black.

OM supporters regretted, especially on social networks, not having had any explanation of the suspicious intervention of Guéla gifted on Jonathan Rowe, at the end of the match, in the Alsatian penalty area. “”There is a fault and penalty“, estimated in these columns the former international referee Bruno Derrien. The DA does not have the same reading of the situation. She coldly analyzed this stroller and she came to the same conclusion as video assistance: he n 'There was no manifest error likely to have Bastien Dechepy who did not flinch. has precisely described the gesture of the Strasbourg on the shoulder of the Olympian, believes that the latter amplifies the fall and that there is no need to sanction.

This description was recorded and sent to OM, at its request, so that the club can verify it for itself. Among the multiple decisions that do not pass in Provence, the expulsion of Amine Harit during the Clasico by François Letexier, when the official did not deign to warn the Monegasque Wilfried Singo for having wiped the crampons on the Parisian goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma, victim of facial trauma. OM regularly deplores the lack of consistency of French arbitration. “”All situations can be similar without being identical, which leads the same referee not to make the same decisions from one match to another, even during the same match, pleads Delerue. The vow of the DA is to seek uniformity and consistency for the sake of uniformity. Even if it remains complex given the laws of the game and the sensitivity of each.“