A glance at the shelves reveals the life of Claude Deville-Cavellin. Trophies, jerseys, pennants are piled up there. The man who receives us in his office as president of the Essonne football district was also a player and then a coach. He knows the grounds of 91 by heart. However, “I didn’t see that coming…”, pinches himself the sixty-year-old with salt-and-pepper hair.
“That” is the growing violence which is ruining the daily lives of dozens of amateur clubs in Essonne, month after month. “A plague which represents 99% of our worries”, according to Claude Deville-Cavellin.
