While calm gradually returned to the Ligue 2 multiplex on Friday evening, the fines imposed by the LFP for anti-Bein and anti-Labrune chants added fuel to the fire.
This week, the disciplinary committee of the Professional Football League imposed fines on several Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 clubs following chants launched against Beinsports, the championship broadcaster, but also against the LFP and its president Vincent Labrune. Likewise, the football police also sanctioned clubs where supporters had targeted Qatar and Nasser Al-Khelaifi via banners.
Decisions which obviously had the opposite effect to that expected, since this weekend, new banners appeared and in particular Saturday evening at Roudourou during the match between Guingamp and Grenoble broadcast on Beinsports. “ Qatar-Bein: In France, freedom of expression is a right “, could be read at the bottom of the Guingamp supporters' stand, while in the Grenoble parking lot, a message was presented: ” Qatar-Bein, TV rights concern you more than human rights ».
A little earlier in the afternoon, on the side of Caen, a club already sanctioned, which hosted Bastia, anti-Beinsports chants were launched, and this was also repeated in other Ligue 2 stadiums on Friday evening. To see if the Professional Football League will continue to financially punish the clubs, which would be an original way of filling the coffers of an institution which, according to the recent commission of inquiry report, has above all succeeded in emptying them without no caution. What is certain is that the atmosphere which had calmed down a little between the Ultras and Beinsports risks becoming tense again in the stands.
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