Fair Play Rankings

[Edgar]

Can anyone provide a link to the French League Fair Play rankings?

France is 5th in the UEFA Fair Play Rankings (http://www.xs4all.nl/~kassiesa/bert/uefa/fairplay.html) and could get an extra UEFA Cup spot - awarded to the team topping the French Fair Play Rankings.

[Edgar]

This is it: link (http://www.lfp.fr/ligue1/challengeFairPlay.asp).

Lorient way in front and could land an UEFA Cup spot if France get it through the Fair Play competition.

[Pierre-Henri]

PSG second ? Fortunately, that "Fair play" ranking doesn't include supporters.

[NicolasN.]

PSG second ? Fortunately, that "Fair play" ranking doesn't include supporters.


L'HISTOIRE RÉCENTE du football est peuplée de banderoles d'une extrême gravité et pourtant restées impunies. Le 26 août dernier, à l'occasion de Lyon - Saint-Etienne, des supporteurs lyonnais déploient à Gerland : « Stéphanois, ordures consanguines ! » Voilà qui rappelle sensiblement le message anti-Ch'tis du Stade de France.

Le PSG est souvent victime de la vulgarité de ses adversaires, comme à Bordeaux il y a quelques saisons : « L'été vous polluez nos plages, l'hiver nos montagnes, ce soir notre stade.

Parisiens, le Sud-Ouest vous vomit ». Mars 2007 : un incroyable calicot seulement sanctionné d'un huis clos avec sursis, cette fois-ci pour la réception des Lyonnais par les Verts : « Tuez-les ».

Les derbys rhonalpins sont riches en bêtises. En 2000, toujours à Gerland : « Nos ancêtres inventaient le cinéma quand vos pères crevaient dans la mine ».


That's the best answer.

[Pierre-Henri]

I didn't say that PSG was alone. Strasbourg, a few years ago, was (in)famous for its anti-semite kop. All of this is deeply despairing. Sometimes, I wonder why I still follow soccer.

[midknight]

Nicholas N, here's my take on the situation.

I follow french football assiduously (as in every weekend) for about two seasons now, but mainly through RMC. I don't have nor want Canal. I heard about the "Tuez-les" incident (Ironically, the first reference to this incident was by the onsite commentator who when trying to explain the "grosse ambience" of the occasion referred to an " 'amusing mise en scene' with various OL players depicted as different animals and a banner saying 'hunting season is now open")

However the vast majority of these banners are not talked about, and the offending ones are simply ignored by the radio announcers so as not to propagate the idiocy. Generally, you only hear about them when a complaint is made and/or a fine is issued.

Maybe if so many people are making "toute un tas" of the banner Nicholas, its not so much that it was deployed by PSG supporters, but simply that it happened to be deployed on a cup final in the presence of the President when the match was being aired on public television during Prime Time when many a lot more people than usual (quite a high percentage not normally fanatical watchers of football) would have seen it.

The "lack of fair play of PSG supporters" is not only a reference to the Chtis banner - it is issued from a long list of dérapages and derives in recent and not so recent memory circulating around and close to the Parc des Princes, not the least of which is the incident with the Maccabi Haifa cup tie which ended in "mort d'homme" (yet another incident which would have interpelled the less than casual observer of football)

PSG, being a larger than life french club has by extension, a larger than life mediatic treatment. The club and its supporters were very glad for this when things are going well and it was at the top of Europe. They can't be indignant when it goes in the other direction, be it in reference to the relegation battle, favourable/unfavourable refereeing decisions, unsavoury fan incidents etc
The difference between PSG and Strasbourg (to use PH's example) is that if Strasbourg loses 5 matches straight, no one talks about a "crisis". If PSG loses 3, the word begins to be bandied about. And the same applies for Marseille.

Which is why I laugh when I hear Marseille and PSG fans weigh in after Lyon's almost inevitable disappointing CL exit every season to say that OL is not (and will never be) a "grand club".

To paraphrase an american expression "Everythings bigger in Paris".
That includes the shine as well as the blemishes.

[NicolasN.]

You can call me Nicolas. N is the beginning of my last name. I assume that I was lacking in imagination when I made this account :p