Saturday, a few minutes from the end of the match between Union Bordeaux-Bègles and Clermont, concluded with a draw (16-16), the tension had risen a notch, Christophe Urios, the manage of the UBB, verbally attacking Didier Bès, the ASM's forward coach.
Questioned by France Bleu on Monday, the latter returned to this unpleasant exchange.
"Two minutes from the end, I found that Urios spoke a lot to the referees and put a lot of pressure by saying that we were going to fall (
in scrum, Editor's note
), that we were going to collapse and be at fault .
And it's going five minutes, so that swelled me too.
It started from there… ”
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Didier Bès regrets that the Canal + microphones have only picked up the words of the Girondin manager and affirms not to have been let go.
“We mostly hear him and we don't hear me answer too much but I answer him.
He didn't like it but that's how it is.
I tell him to respect me for what he says and I will not repeat his sentences.
The mics on my side were a little further away and a little more closed. "
And to reveal that this episode, already inglorious, had an epilogue between four eyes in the corridors of the Stade Chaban-Delmas, where the two men, close to coming to blows, had to be separated.
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These are things that we must say in the eyes and that's what I did in the hallway
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Didier Bès, Clermont forwards coach
“These are things that we must say in the eyes and that's what I did in the hallway.
And that, it was not filmed, it was not in front of the cameras and that suits me well.
I am not here to put on a show.
We can't say that it was cordial.
We were very close, we didn't need to shout, we got along very well, ”says Didier Bès.
The Clermontois made it a personal matter.
“I couldn't say nothing at the edge of the pitch.
What bothers me is that we hear him a lot on the videos.
But I said what I had to him in the hallway at the end of the match, even if it was hot and people had to calm the situation down… ”A confrontation that he ultimately judges however unnecessary.
“Honestly, that tires me.
I think we have enough things to take care of… ”
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