Thomas Siniecki, Media365: published on Friday October 18, 2024 at 8:54 a.m.
The clash between Olympique Lyonnais and AS Saint-Etienne is a huge classic of our championship.
Given the recent trends in recent years among supporters in French football and particularly around major shocks, this is a very bold attempt on the part of AS Saint-Etienne fans. They, for the return of the Greens among the elite, hope to be authorized to travel for the big derby in Lyon, in a little over three weeks (Sunday November 10 at 8:45 p.m.). Which seems all the more complicated at Groupama Stadium, the venue which is not the least affected by the problems…
“Depriving yourself of visitor parking means depriving yourself of your best security tool”
The four main groups, namely the Magic Fans, the Green Angels, the Stéphanois Independentists and the Union of Stéphanois Supporters, signed a joint press release calling on the authorities to provide “the necessary means to grant a decent number of places”: ” Given the distance between the two cities, and regardless of possible bans, there will necessarily be Saint-Etienne supporters scattered within the stadium. To deprive yourself of the parking reserved for visitors is to deprive yourself of your best tool. The Rhône prefecture was able to see this during the OL-OM match, where Marseille supporters were attacked simply because no secure stand was reserved for them.
ASSE fans are therefore placing their request on another ground, that of public order, in order to hope to influence the probable future decision of a prefectural travel ban for visiting supporters. Supporter groups warn that they reserve the right to “initiate any recourse before the competent courts” in order, if necessary, to travel all the same. This new judicial trend had been particularly successful, often a few hours before the match, for the European Cup and foreign followers, for example those from Seville to Lens last season in the Champions League. But this is also starting to become the case in Ligue 1.
