A former referee unzips his colleagues

Olivier Létang relaunched the talk on French refereeing, after the Losc-OL match, the Lille boss pointing particularly by Mickaël Landreau, now a sports activities advisor for the referees.

Ligue 1 referees should take much less for bosses

If he doesn’t wish to contest the selections of Ligue 1 referees, Saïd Ennjimi believes that by having a extra diplomatic perspective, the officers might handle the matches and their relations with the gamers and the coaches extra serenely. In keeping with him, the referees shouldn’t think about themselves as stars. “Principally, what’s a very powerful when the referee enters the sphere?” It’s that he’s there for the others, at the beginning. That is what exasperates me a little bit for a number of seasons, it’s that we not actually have personalities. And when we have now it, they’re too virulent.

There, on this case with Bruno Genesio, I feel it will have been crucial to only communicate to him and inform him for instance that the referee might perceive the strain he had, however that the referee additionally has strain on his shoulders and that he completely wants him to complete the match accurately. However the referees don’t wish to put apart this chief parameter, ‘it’s I who decides and never in any other case’, I discover that it’s a disgrace, “regrets Mentioned Ennjimi.