OM is in the sights of the authorities, and the recent rants of the leaders have alerted the national ethics council.
The pressure on the referees at the end of each OM match is starting to affect the National Ethics Council (CNE). This one, governed by Frédéric Thiriez, certainly has a symbolic significance, but he wanted to make his voice heard on the numerous Marseille criticisms against the referees in recent weeks. At the end of the match against Strasbourg, Leonardo Balerdi and especially Pablo Longoria said “basta” on the refereeing errors unfavorable to their club. Previously, it was Mehdi Benatia who received a red card during the Coupe de France match against Lille for insulting the fourth referee. And the Marseille sports director had even suggested that there was a plot against OM after the victory obtained in Lyon last fall.
The CNE accuses Longoria of flirting with supporters
It would be good to leave the referees alone, said the CNE in a press release, which clearly accuses OM of engaging in cheap populism at the expense of the officials. “ The referee is a human being, subject like all of us to errors, even if the technical progress made over several years reduces their scope. It remains that error is part of the game. For this reason, it is permitted to discuss an arbitral decision, or even to criticize it, while respecting the duty of reserve prescribed by the Charter of Ethics. What is prohibited, however, and the rule is the same for court decisions, is to bring arbitration into disrepute. Accusing the refereeing body as a whole of systematic bias to the detriment of a club, with the ulterior aim of uniting its supporters around it or worse, of intimidating the referees in the hope of obtaining a more “successful” arbitration. lenient” in the future, is a serious breach of ethics and an unacceptable attack on the image of football », Launched the body about the actions of OM and its leaders.
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