For having grabbed and pulled a Pau player to the ground on Friday, the Bastia coach, Benoît Tavenot, faces several suspension matches.
After grabbing an opposing player and dragging him to the ground out of bounds during the match of the 20th day of Ligue 2 against Pau (1-1), Friday, Bastia coach Benoît Tavenot – excluded for this gesture – big risk. Everything will depend on how the disciplinary committee interprets this clash.
Tavenot faces up to six months of suspension
If “excessive/inappropriate behavior” is found, the technician is exposed to at least two suspension matches. But the bill could be much heavier if the commission considers that it is a voluntary shove (“Making physical contact with a person by pushing likely to make them step back or fall”) since the scale is twelve games suspension.
-The act of brutality/beating, which would risk six months of suspension, could not fall within this framework since it is, according to the FFF, an “action by which a person tries, by whatever means or, to harm the physical integrity of a person without succeeding in doing so.”
It was in the 78th minute that Benoît Tavenot completely lost his nerve by grabbing Pau defender Jordy Gaspar by the jersey, before pulling him to the ground. “My action is stupid, what do you want me to tell you? You have to control yourself, I didn't control myself. I explained myself to the player, there's no problem. I I don't have to react like that”, he admitted at the end of the meeting… while criticizing the Palois for their attitude. “If we write a book on how to win at Furiani, we should definitely not do what they did.”
