The 13 minutes of PSG-Basaksehir, match interrupted because of alleged facts of racism, open the way to several questions.
We are trying to answer them even if nothing is official yet.
Is Paris officially qualified?
Ultimately, Leipzig's victory over Manchester United (3-2) on Tuesday settles the issue: the German club and PSG have qualified for the knockout stages of the Champions League.
No one will be able to challenge this sporting verdict.
On the other hand, who finishes first and second in the pool, which changes the order of the meetings in the round of 16?
Two solutions: either Paris must replay this match, probably this Wednesday evening at 7 p.m., and the answer will come from the field: according to a victory, a draw or a defeat, the club of the capital will finish first or second in its pool.
Either Paris gets a victory on the green carpet (3-0), which places it at the top of the group, period.
In any case, he is qualified for the rest of the competition, the draw of which is scheduled for Monday in Switzerland.
A before and an after?
A priori, two teams that leave the field because an official, a referee in this case, lets himself be abandoned to racism, this is a first in the history of European football.
How can a referee come to designate a member of a technical staff by reducing it to the word "Black" when all the adjectives exist?
He could have said: "It's the big one", "it's the one dressed in such and such a suit", "It's the one with a cap of such and such a color".
The Romanian assistant preferred and in a totally inappropriate and irrelevant way to qualify him as "Black" while he would never have designated another element of the staff by saying "It is the White".
Arbitrator struck off?
This slippage is already a matter of state with the reaction of the disputed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan calling "firmly" to condemn the "racist" remarks allegedly made by the 4th arbitrator.
"I strongly condemn the racist remarks made against Pierre Achille Webo, member of the technical staff of Basaksehir, and I am convinced that UEFA will take the necessary measures," said Erdogan on Twitter, whose model of government does not look like a democracy.
Temsilcimiz Başakşehir'in teknik ekibinden Pierre Webo'ya karşı sarf edilen ırkçı sözleri şiddetle kınıyor, UEFA tarafından gereken adımların atılacağına inanıyorum.
Sporda ve hayatın tüm alanlarında ırkçılığa ve ayrımcılığa kayıtsız şartsız karşıyız.
#Notoracism
- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (@RTErdogan) December 8, 2020
Guilty, responsible or innocent, the 4th referee risks a life suspension.
This is how UEFA should solve the problem by dismissing the official forever.
