The referees have been under fire in recent weeks, and Florian Maurice hit hard after Nice's defeat in Lyon. Thomas Bonnavent would like the Nice sports director to be sanctioned as harshly as Mehdi Benatia was.
Every weekend has its share of criticism of referees in Ligue 1. As in all world championships. But in recent weeks, it has become more and more vindictive and always in one-upmanship to criticize the whistles. For Nice and its sports director Florian Maurice last weekend, the referee even wore an OL jersey on his back. Before him, from Monaco to Lens, via PSG and OM, the leaders had a field day with the referees. The drawing of Mehdi Benatia on the OL-OM arbitration caused a big controversy, and an exemplary sanction against the Moroccan sports director of Marseille.
He wants to see Maurice sanctioned
On La Chaine L'Equipe, Thomas Bonnavent believes that Florian Maurice should also inherit a nice sanction for having suggested that there was a plot against his team. “ French referees are incompetent in Ligue 1, while they are good in Europe. This results in coaches who are freaking out, with the stakes, and sports directors too. If everyone shuts up and lets it happen? The little sheriffs will think they are big sheriffs and that will continue. As for Franck Haise's exit, I can understand it. But the exit of Florian Maurice, his name is not Mehdi Benatia. He still said that the referee had a white jersey (of OL) and not yellow. I remember, Benatia, it lasted a week and it was talked about everywhere. And Florian Maurice, it’s radio silence. And that annoys me even more. Mehdi Benatia was sanctioned for conspiracy and conspiracy theory, and that's what it is. What Maurice did is not a conspiracy theory to say that the referee played with a Lyon jersey? I also want consistency in the bodies and the commission. This guy has to take it. Thiago Scuro (Monaco), Luis Campos (PSG), they didn't take anything, I'm fed up with this double-speed commission “, denounced the columnist of La Chaine L'Equipe, not far from shouting in turn against OM, sanctioned for its comments on arbitration while this was not the case for the other clubs which moaned in recent weeks.
