Jérôme Rothen and Emmanuel Petit reacted to OM’s press release on Wednesday to complain about “the accumulation of decisions taken against him”. The two RMC Sport consultants do not really validate the methods of the Marseille club.
Four days after this shock at the top of Ligue 1, Lens-OM (2-1) remains at the heart of the news. Tuesday evening, the Marseille club, which still does not digest the arbitration decisions of Clément Turpin on Saturday evening, published a press release in which it deplores “the accumulation of decisions taken against it” since the start of the season. In the sights of the Olympians: the arbitration decisions against him or the programming of the Coupe de France final and matches on Friday after the international breaks.
Rothen: “I can’t imagine for a single second that there is a plot against OM”
“They are next (to the plate), decided Jérôme Rothen in the show Rothen ignites on RMC this Wednesday. I was very surprised by this press release. When a referee misses his match, we say so. But, often, it balances out a little bit over a season. I don’t imagine for a single second that there is a plot against OM.”
“That Clément Turpin is not up to par in certain matches, it’s the truth. But it’s not just Marseille who have been the victim, continued Rothen. He’s a draw against Lorient, he’s a draw against Lyon , he is not terrible against PSG… These clubs could also highlight that Clément Turpin has made too much noise about him this year. In this press release, Marseille takes out the situations against him. But there are also favorable situations on the season. It balances out if you do the ratio over all the games.”
“Behind, they tell us about the calendar for the Coupe de France final, added Rothen. They left in sick tirades whereas if they had qualified against Annecy and made a Coupe de France final, they would also have paid for playing on Saturday night and then Tuesday or Wednesday, like Nantes and Toulouse did. Was that better than watching your opponent play against Toulouse? For me, that’s a terrible statement for the image of the club.”
Petit: “A stroke of the sword in the water”
Also present in the show Rothen ignites this Wednesday, Emmanuel Petit shared the incomprehension of Jérôme Rothen. “If it’s simply a way to put pressure on the refereeing corps for the end of the season, it’s a shot in the dark because it doesn’t fool anyone. On the Lens match, I find that it This cancellation of Sanchez’s goal is a bit far-fetched, so I understand the frustration of the Marseillais on this action. But I do not understand the fact of taking examples that have taken place all season to put pressure on the refereeing body on the end of the season.”
And Emmanuel Petit added: “If we were to give the floor to all the small clubs, perhaps they would have more things to say than Olympique de Marseille. In the Premier League, Brighton, which is on the doorstep of Europe for the first time in its history, received three times an apology from the arbitral commission after controversial decisions. Did they make press releases to protest that the big ones are protected?