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For his first column this morning on France Bleu Occitanie, the former 3rd line of Stade Toulousain begins with a controversy. Contacted in the afternoon, he explained and apologized.
It seems that it is better to start with the worst after that it rolls more easily.” Even before the start of Gillian Galan’s first column on France Bleu Occitanie this morning, in the show Ici, c’est rugby, c’est as if Marie, the host, sensed the controversy coming.e line of the Stade Toulousain had decided to discuss the defeat of the Toulousains against Bordeaux, then to tackle tomorrow evening’s derby, against the CO, at the Pierre-Fabre stadium (has watch and listen from 2:10 in the video below).
“For a first, it’s not cool that they put you with me,” the rugby consultant said to his neighbor in his intro. Uncomfortable, provocative and “chauvinistic” as he defined himself, the 33-year-old former stadium player slipped up: “This weekend no time to think. By going to our inbred friends in Castres, where we know, it’s going to be constant war, the supporters drooling at the mouth, no game and a s**t match… Nothing to worry about . I hope that Toulouse will sweep away Castres and that we can laugh and sing after the match.”
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A few words that made the Castres supporters jump. On social networks, an inevitable sounding board, many people from Castres are protesting: “You’ve got the wrong sport, man. It’s in football that you talk about your opponents like that. In rugby, we take a little height and we respect our opponents and we respect the opposing supporters.” writes Nicolas. “Where is the respect?” asks this other supporter, when Séverine regrets the “violence in the words” of the former Toulouse player. “What example does he give to young people who hear such messages? wonders Jean-Yves. “I sincerely hope that the response to this contempt will be on the ground with a victory for the CO.” concludes another. “Chambering, I have always been for, confides a Castres to us, but here, treating us as inbred… It’s average…”
“It was completely second-rate. I sleep, that’s the way I am. But I love Castres, I have good friends who play there!”
Wesley Vanden Bossche is the president of the Puissance Castres supporters association: “We know it with Toulouse, it’s perpetual chambering but there it’s a bit limited all the same… We were planning to make a banner for Helen Tekori (wife of Joe Tekori died suddenly) and a tifo on Dupont to pay him a little tribute even if he is not there. It’s annoying what he says but we will remain fair play. We know that it will be a. difficult match, but with the team we have, I think we can win.”
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“I have a lot of trouble with our Castres friends, who often have problems with me, and I have problems with them,” Galan continued in his morning column. We will have understood it. And to conclude: “As you can see, I was very gentle with my first Marie.”
Contacted in the afternoon, the ex-player did not escape: “It was completely second-rate. I’m sleeping, I’m like that. But I love Castres, I have good friends who play there!” Sincerely surprised by the reactions, he explains: “I’m trying to do something that changes, a column that isn’t sanitized. Frankly, I’m sorry, it hurts my heart if it hurt people! It wasn’t the goal. I responded to everyone who wrote to me on the networks.”
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The CO for his part did not wish to react. There is no doubt that the reaction of the targeted players should be felt on the pitch.
