The opportunity for Andy Carroll to discover a new setting.
The eighth round of the Coupe de France between the Girondins de Bordeaux at the Herbiersboth residents of National 2, will not be played at Matmut Atlantique. According to Southwest, the Bordeaux club gave up on organizing the match in its stadium this Wednesday for financial reasons, in all likelihood favoring a relocation to the Pierre-Paul Bernard stadium in Talence to receive the Vendéens, surprise defeaters of AC Ajaccio in the previous round.
Anticipating a much smaller crowd only in the championship and fearing financial lossespecially since the revenue is divided between the two clubs as is the custom in the Coupe de France, the Bordeaux leaders would have concluded an agreement with the town hall of Talence to play in the modest stadium with around 1250 seats. The question of the presence of the public is however currently debated, the tendency being rather behind closed doorsdue to the difficulties of cohabitation of the two main groups of Bordeaux supporters (Ultramarines and North Gate) outside Matmut Atlantique.
Funny way to receive the finalist of the 2018 edition.
The surprising reconversion of Ulrich Ramé
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