Hervé Mathoux, the live broadcast that goes wrong

Hervé Mathoux has been at the helm of “Canal Football Club” for sixteen years now. Flagship program of the Canal+ sports department since 2008, this magazine returns every week to the latest football news, through images and analyses. From time to time, certain players from the world of football are invited there. This was particularly the case during the year of the program's launch, when Jean-Michel Aulas was welcomed on set for the first time. A very tense show, which the presenter still remembers.

He mentioned the episode this Saturday in the columns of the newspaper
The Teamon the occasion of the forty years of
Canal+. “We are welcoming Jean-Michel Aulas for the first time. For me, the moment and the setting are right for him to make his mea culpa on his excesses, in particular sometimes breaking the pin with the referees, on his bad faith known to all, etc….” And if things started well, the rest will prove much more complicated for Hervé Mathoux and his teams.
“After starting the show gently, we broadcast a portrait where we have a little fun with his quirks. We think he will smile… Not at all! »

Jean-Michel Aulas breaks down

Visibly upset, the one who is still president of Olympique Lyonnais during a period of glory for his club, will want to leave the show even though it is broadcast live. “During the subject, he breaks down. […] Once the advert starts, he leaves the set saying: 'If it's to be insulted, I have no reason to stay.' We run after him in the corridors (…). We managed to bring him back to the set where the atmosphere inevitably became heavier than the lightness initially imagined…”

An episode forever engraved in the memory of the journalist who also admitted to having never experienced another incident of the same kind since then. “It was ultimately the only time in our sixteen years of existence where we had to catch up with a guest who was ready to leave us in the middle of the show. »