The reaction of Fabien Galthié to the announcement of the relapse of Matthieu Lartot, affected by knee cancer, was expected. Not so much because he is the coach of the XV of France but because the two men worked together at France Télévisions, to the point of becoming close. Asked by The Parisian on the fight led by his former partner, Galthié says he was informed at the end of the VI Nations Tournament.
“I listened, above all. I try, on my small scale, to be useful. I thought a lot about him, and I still think a lot about him. I think of his family, and his parents whom I know well. You have to be modest about what you can say outside. »
The story behind the support post on Insta
It is therefore with the agreement of Matthieu Lartot that the boss of the XV of France has thought about an Instagram post in the form of a “private joke” in order to show his support for the journalist. “I rebounded on a sentence he said to me to evoke the different stages of his treatment: ”Me too, I have my arrow of time”? So I took it back. »
Fabien Galthié also returned to the weekends spent with Matthieu Lartot to cover the Tournament and European Cup matches, golf games and the commentator’s aborted dream, already because of his knee, at the age of 14 years old. He hopes to be able to listen to it at the microphone of France TV during the World Cup. “He told me he wants to be there. […] I feel like he’s ready for this fight. […] Me, I’m her boyfriend. And I’m just trying to be a little helpful. »