Dimitri Payet has still not digested the Nice incidents of August 22.
And he does not hide to say it in the columns of L'Equipe this Friday before the resumption of Ligue 1 this weekend.
In the 75th minute of this game played this summer and which had "
launched
"The horde of violence which occurred in the wake in certain stadiums of Ligue 1 (Angers, Montpellier, Marseille, Lens ...), he had in particular received a bottle of water on the head before sending it back, exasperated by the treatment undergone the whole part by some Nice fans, towards the platform in question.
There followed an invasion of the field of the supporters and a match stopped because the Marseillais (who lost 1-0 at this moment of the match) did not want to return on the lawn because of the lack of security.
On October 27 in Troyes, the two teams will meet behind closed doors and on neutral ground.
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But for Payet, the episode is not digested and the sanctions issued by the Professional Football League (three matches behind closed doors for Nice, two points of suspension including one suspended sentence in particular, but also a year of suspended prison sentence and five years of stadium ban issued by justice to the Nice supporter author of the kick against Payet) are not enough in his eyes. "
If I stay lying down, I tell myself that I'll take more in the face, he
advances on the fact of knowing if he was afraid or not that evening.
After that, if I don't get up, the match is won 3-0.
I can go out with a neck brace and the story is settled.
But my reaction is human.
In view of the decisions that followed and the events that followed in other areas, we are never going to get out of this.
(…) We had to make decisions precisely.
This match in Nice was an opportunity to put an end to all that.
But the disciplinary committee's sanctions were not up to par.
And it was seen then.
"
You just have to cross the Channel.
I played in England, I saw how it was there.
There are no negotiations possible.
It's zero tolerance and history is settled.
The guy knows what he risks, the club which does not know how to manage the supporters knows it too.
Dimitri Payet
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If he acknowledges having "
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" lived the debate around his responsibility, even admitting to being "
touched a few days
", the former player of Nantes and Saint-Etienne, persists on the leniency of the instances.
"
Unfortunately, after these decisions, I knew that we had started on big nonsense and I was not wrong. The facts have proven me right. As long as we don't make real decisions ... (...) You just have to cross the Channel. I played in England, I saw how it was there. There are no negotiations possible. It's zero tolerance and history is settled. The guy knows what he risks, the club which does not know how to manage the supporters knows it too. I really thought that there would be something strong after Nice and that we were going to stop laughing. The supporters, and I am also talking about our own, must know that they can penalize their team and the image of their club. But what do we have to wait for? That something is happening
even more serious? It will be too late. "