Clubs on the verge of financial asphyxiation with a broadcaster (Mediapro) which is shutting down, desperately empty stadiums and a sometimes mediocre show on the pitch: it was thought that French football had hit rock bottom in recent weeks.
The images of unleashed supporters storming on Saturday the training center of the Olympique de Marseille transformed into an entrenched camp, under the jets of projectiles hidden by the clouds of smoke, only tarnished the faded picture a little more French football sick of a double crisis, economic, but also social, with supporters who no longer identify with their club.
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Because, if it is the magnifying mirror of the round ball in France, OM is not the only club to note a deep fracture with the base of its audience.
Three other historic institutions in France have recently suffered from the same ills.
Last summer, several dozen of Girondins de Bordeaux ultras had
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