Jean-Baptiste Boursier, presenter of Champions League evenings for RMC Sport, crossed paths with Thomas Tuchel just after the elimination of Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarter-final against Manchester City this Wednesday evening (1-1, 4 -1 cumulative). And he is not ready to forget this fortuitous meeting.
“Think about it at home: when you say ‘how are you?’ to someone, it doesn’t mean hello.” Jean-Baptiste Boursier, presenter of Champions League evenings for RMC Sport, knows what he is talking about. This Wednesday evening, he met Thomas Tuchel at the bottom of the stands of the Allianz Arena just after the elimination of Bayern Munich in the quarter-finals of the Champions League against Manchester City. (1-1, 4-1 on aggregate). And he is not ready to forget the consequences of this little abuse of language.
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“Of course not, it won’t!”
“I got yelled at by Thomas Tuchel just coming down from the stands, said Jean-Baptiste Boursier with a smile on RMC Sport just after this fortuitous meeting. Tuchel was sent off so he was right where we entered the pitch. It turns out that, for RMC Sport, I have already questioned him several times. So I walked past him and shook his hand. You know that abuse of language where, when you say hello to people, you say ‘how are you?’ So I say ‘how are you Thomas?’ and he looked at me with his eyes full of rage and said: ‘Of course it’s not okay!’ looking at the field. He was probably right to be upset.”
Tuchel turns on Turpin
It must be said that Tuchel was particularly tense this Wednesday evening. Extremely annoyed by the various decisions of Clément Turpin, French referee of this Bayern-City, he received two yellow cards for protest and was excluded after having exploded along his line.
“I would give him the score of 1/10. He was below everything, railed Tuchel at a press conference about Clément Turpin’s performance. It’s incredible at this level. He whistled everything and didn’t whatever.” Jean-Baptiste Boursier is not the only one to have suffered his great frustration.