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The president of the “rouge et noir” appeared before the media, this Saturday, October 5 after the Castres – Toulouse derby (28-23) of the 5th day of the Top 14, to react to the controversy arising from the comments made by the former stadium manager.
About twenty minutes after the end of the derby lost by his team, Didier Lacroix appeared before the media. A spontaneous speech which found its source in the controversial remarks of Gillian Galan, former player of the “red and black” house, consultant on France Bleu Occitanie and who had assimilated the Castres to “consanguines” in a column on Friday October 4 , on the eve of the match.
An intervention lasting a little less than three minutes from the Toulouse president “to return to a pre-match episode” during which he wanted to say that “under no circumstances can Gillian speak on behalf and instead of Stade Toulousain”, also targeting without naming it La Dépêche du Midiwhich had devoted its front page of the Tarn edition and half a page to this event, “perhaps allowing the Castres to be sufficiently motivated to carry out this magnificent second half”.
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Stating that Gillian Galan is on trial with Stade Toulousain on two occasions and “that in no case, of course, can we condone idiotic, incoherent and completely inappropriate comments in the world of rugby”, he recalled “the conference of joint press a few years ago” to pacify relations between the two clubs, which had become very tense with a rivalry exacerbated during the passage of Christophe Urios – whose enmity with Ugo Mola is no secret – at the head of the CO .
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And to praise the “great president that is Pierre-Yves Revol”, who had “the intelligence, of course, to know that beyond a derby, as we saw on the ground, with “commitment, with what’s at stake, with the desire to win, everything we love about rugby cannot be tainted by a revisited classic, a derby that goes badly.”
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“We will never support the rise in speeches that insult our adversaries, even less Castres,” he continued. So once again, I am not sorry for Gillian’s comments, they are his business, it is up to him to do so. We absolutely do not assume responsibility for them, so I will not allow myself to apologize for these comments in his place, it is up to him to do so.”
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And to conclude: “Stade Toulousain still wants to play derbies against Castres like today, winning some, losing some, but with the joy of everything we know in rugby.”
