It took two days for French football authorities to respond to government orders and to resolve an early closure of the championship. On Tuesday, the Prime Minister said that, faced with health risks, "the 2019-2020 professional sports season will not be able to resume."
Thursday, faced with this position that its president, Nathalie Boy de la Tour, deemed "unambiguous", the board of directors of the Professional Football League voted the final stop of the 2019-2020 season on the 28th day .
This final whistle dedicated the new PSG champion title, the relegations of Amiens and Toulouse, as well as the European places of OM (C1), Rennes (preliminary round of C1), Lille, Nice and Reims (Europa League). which is not to everyone's taste.
Relegates, first of all, do not intend to stop there. The president of the TFC, Olivier Sadran, announced that he "reserves the right" to file an appeal. That of Amiens, Bernard Joannin, denounces an "injustice" and announces that he will "fight" to defend his club.
And then there is Jean-Michel Aulas. Olympique Lyonnais ended this truncated season in the worst place for him, 7th, on the heels of Reims, which deprived him of a European qualification. for the first time in twenty years. And already, its president says he is ready to launch "multiple procedures".
The President of Lyon said he was in favor of a playoff system to play in August. He considers the decision of the League to freeze the classification "premature" and criticizes the method of calculation according to a "point taken on number of matches played" report. According to him, this criterion penalizes his team, used to winning a European place during the last days of Ligue 1.
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"We will claim damages, which amount to several tens of millions of euros", details the boss of OL in an interview with AFP and the regional daily Le Progrès, ensuring he wants to take the administrative court to urgent procedure for a suspension of decision by summary procedure.
Saying to expect this type of appeal, the LFP estimated Thursday, by the voice of its executive director general Didier Quillot, that its decision to freeze the classification and to attribute the title to Paris SG was "solid" legally.