Football the way we like it. Tuesday, at the start of the evening, and while the travel ban on Sevillian supporters in Bollaert had just been lifted, they hastened to take the path to the Lens enclosure. The Andalusians were warmly applauded and greeted by their blood-and-gold peers as they paraded in front of the bars near the venue of the meeting between Lens and Sevilla FC, counting for the last day of the Champions League group stage. (2-1). In a video broadcast on the networks, a Spaniard congratulates himself “ [il y a] football here! “. There almost wasn’t any for the 300 visitors, who took advantage of their stay in France to get to know the prefectural decrees, the Ministry of the Interior and the Council of State.
If the latter is a hero in the eyes of aficionados, the first two were targeted by the Lensois public, who displayed a banner “Darmanin, prefects, gold medal for incompetence at the 2024 Olympics”. Another, more sympathetic, was drawn up in support of Andalusian fans, in original version in the text. “Support for the supporters of Seville”, to whom the blood-and-gold people had promised to give up their seats to Bollaert to allow them to attend the meeting in the event that the decree remained in force. Solidarity, all the way.