Amiens relegated to L2: “Families will lose their jobs”, laments the club president

The cause had been heard since Tuesday and the rejection by professional clubs of a Ligue 1 at twenty-two. Unsurprisingly, the general assembly of the French Federation ratified this Friday the relegations of Amiens and Toulouse in L2. The body approved at 82.33% the convention and the financial protocol which links the FFF to the LFP for the period 2020-2024 despite a final intervention by the presidents of Amiens and Toulouse (relegated to L2), Bernard Joannin and Olivier Sadran, to influence the vote. The Picard leader did not even wait for the vote to announce his intention to seize the Council of State for interim measures.

“There was no football solidarity”

“It is not because I am a polemicist but because the cause I am defending is just,” insisted the president of Amiens. There was no football solidarity. The LFP has been inhuman. It has established a charge file not to think about another format but to prevent that can set up a League 1 to 21 or 22. Our football would have emerged grown by not pronouncing any descent. “

Moved, the president of Amiens continues his long speech. “It will destroy the Amiens club and dozens of families will lose their jobs,” he adds. The consequences are going to be very difficult. His Toulouse counterpart Olivier Sadran then spoke very quickly. “Our game is governed by time rules: 90 minutes, the duration of a match, and 38 days, the duration of the competition,” said the president of the TFC. From the moment the rules are changed unilaterally, it distorts the game. ”

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