“Management, resign! “, chanted the supporters by lighting smoke bombs and firecrackers and by sticking posters “Fiasco of Angers, get out all”, at the call of the Ultras of the Kop de la Butte 1992 (KDLB).
Red lantern of L1, which has 20 defeats in 26 days and has not won in the league since September, Angers was again shaken this week by an extra-sporting affair with the sexist remarks which cost coach Abdel his job. Bouhazama.
This case comes on top of the lawsuits initiated in early 2020 against President Saïd Chabane for aggravated sexual assault, the permanent waltz within the management since, or even the suspicions around the transfers of certain players.
“For years, we have had an image of a family club and we have lost that. The president managed to restructure the club and then destroy everything he had built,” Pierre-Antoine Jolivet, 32, KDLB spokesman, told AFP. “People no longer come to the stadium because they don’t want to be associated with Chabane,” he added, while the stadium, extended this season with a brand new stand, often sounds hollow and resonates more with chants of visiting supporters.
“All of this has to change”
“Business does not stop, there is always something worse coming out. And sportingly it is nothing, there is no more game, no more desire, ”lamented this supporter. “We know that this year is over. But we want to start on a healthy basis. »
For Jean-Michel Poupart, 58-year-old executive, subscriber for eight seasons, the club “has arrived at the end of a cycle”. “All of this has to change,” said Martial Gendry, 70, SCO supporter since he was 7 years old. “The descent into L2 is irremediable, but with all the pans that we accumulate, it will be a lesser evil if we don’t go lower”.
He, who chaired the association of Ile-de-France supporters of the SCO when he was working in Paris and the team was living in National, calls for a new management team “which will relaunch the Angevin slab”, this local trademark made of commitment and solidarity. “That’s what makes us live, because we don’t have a lot of means,” he recalled.
