More than fifteen days after the final whistle, the first PSG-OM of this 2020-2021 season will finally know its epilogue in the offices of the Professional Football League (LFP) this Wednesday evening.
Funny clasico, because beyond the Marseille victory (1-0) on the lawn of the Parc des Princes, this stormy meeting will have required no less than three disciplinary committees to judge and sanction the excesses that have enamelled it.
The first commission, on September 16, resulted in the suspensions of five Parisian and Marseille players (Neymar, Paredes, Kurzawa, Benedetto and Amavi) following the general fight in added time.
The second, on September 23, had sanctioned Di Maria by four games for his spitting of the first period towards Alvaro Gonzalez.
And the last, this Wednesday evening, will try to shed light on the potentially reprehensible behavior of Alvaro Gonzalez, the defender of OM, and of Neymar, the striker of PSG.
New elements that could incriminate Neymar have appeared
This latest affair took on a worldwide impact after the Parisian star with 142 million followers on Instagram accused his opponent of having made racist remarks against him during the meeting.
On social networks, the Brazilian number 10 had complained after the match of being called "mono" (monkey in Spanish), which an expert in lip reading confirmed to Parisien-Today in France Hispanic descent.
When the file was put under investigation, on September 16, the disciplinary committee of the LFP had also communicated on an investigation into "the behavior of Mr. Alvaro Gonzalez".
But since that date, new elements that could incriminate Neymar have appeared.
The commission therefore decided to extend the scope of its investigations to the two players involved in this case.
In the role of the sprinkler watered, the Parisian attacker would in turn be likely to have made racist remarks against the Japanese defender Hiroki Sahai.
A Spanish journalist from Spanish radio Cope revealed that the Brazilian would have cracked a "shitty Chinese" vis-à-vis Sakai, and an internal OM source confirmed to an AFP journalist that the Marseille club would have images of this verbal altercation.
Up to ten suspension games ...
Also in Spain, the Gol chain has dissected the spat in the 36th minute and it claims that Neymar would have called Alvaro Gonzalez "Puto maricon"
(Editor's note: put… ped… in Spanish)
, which could constitute an insult homophobic in nature.
We are far from Montaigne and La Boétie, but it is nevertheless these words that will have to qualify and judge the members of the disciplinary committee.
Provided that the investigator has succeeded in shedding light on the exact content of these unfriendly exchanges.
For this, he has already heard the two protagonists of the case by videoconference, but separately, last week.
The committee, for its part, should hear them again this Wednesday evening, still by videoconference.
But no confrontation between the two players is scheduled.
The central referee, Jérôme Brisard, and the 4th referee, Willy Delajod, are also summoned to testify to what they have seen or heard.
Finally, the two clubs used the services of lip reading experts.
They were able to file their conclusions and it is doubtful whether they lead to the same results.
For its part, the disciplinary committee was very discreet about the means on which it relied to try to bring out the truth.
But it would not be illogical for the instructor to enlist the services of an independent lip-reading expert.
If it were to sanction one of the two or both players - Neymar and Gonzalez incur up to ten suspension games each - the League will indeed have to be irreproachable in its motives.
At the risk of creating incomprehension and recourse.
In case the evidence is lacking, she can also decide to release Neymar and / or Alvaro.
Which, on the contrary, could be interpreted as a desire not to take responsibility and would not satisfy many people.
The only certainty is that the decision may fall late in the evening.
The consequence of debates which promise to be long and lively.