Did he avoid that they come to blows and give an even more catastrophic turn to this already very sad evening for French football?
Asked by RMC Sport on Monday evening, the former player José Cobos, now Sports Assistant at the town hall of Nice, explained that he intervened urgently in the stands to prevent it from degenerating between the two club presidents, Pablo Longoria and Jean- Pierre Rivère, at the time of the incidents.
"How do you expect me to do anything else?"
When I saw that it was taking a turn that I didn't want to see after what happened on the pitch I stepped over the two rows of the stand and I intervened with the leaders, explains t -he.
It was really strong, so I won ”.
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The president of Nice, Jean-Pierre Rivère, confirmed that the tone had risen between leaders while the lawn was invaded by supporters of the Popular South tribune, denouncing an "extremely virulent" reaction from Marseille leaders.
"When I see the president of OM who was on the verge of doing things not to do in relation to my wife," he adds, still on RMC.
Cobos, also passed by the PSG, nuance: “The wife of Jean-Pierre Rivère was not pushed, but the president of OM touched her. This pissed off Rivère. My position was to intervene so that there was no incident. I spoke to him in Spanish to tell him to calm down [...] This should not happen to gestures that people would have regretted. "A version confirmed by the president of OM, Pablo Longoria, in La Provence:" There were moments of tension [...] We did not get caught with the president, there was no no type of aggression. And it was José Cobos who was great, who calmed everyone's enthusiasm. "
