“The suit is too big for him”: Christophe Dugarry’s scathing words on Pablo Longoria
The 98 world champion believes that the statement by the OM president, who criticised the refereeing after the match against Auxerre to the point of mentioning "corruption", is unacceptable.
By Le ParisienChristophe Dugarry has never been the type to keep his tongue or his microphone in his pocket. And the recent public outing of Pablo Longoria , the president of OM speaking of "corruption" after having castigated the refereeing of Auxerre - OM (3-0), was not going to encourage him to keep quiet. On the microphone of RMC, the radio station that employs him as a consultant, Dugarry let loose. "Longoria has been on edge for six months, telling us that the refereeing is not good, that it is a shitty championship, that everything is going badly, he asserts. He is president of OM! He shows us that he is losing his temper and that the suit is too big for him."
For Dugarry, Longoria's public regrets in an interview with AFP on Monday are not enough. "You have to keep your cool, you're not even on the field. So I understand, everyone is capable of losing their cool, everyone is capable of saying huge stupid things. We've all said things, me first, that I regretted. But we also have to acknowledge things with much more gravity. When I hear him say in these apologies: Refereeing has to evolve and progress , but dude, you're the one who has to progress!"
In full swing, the former Bordeaux and OM striker continued: "When you make a mea culpa and still say that the refereeing is not going well, that there are too many errors... No, that's not the truth. Because what's more, what he says about what happened in Auxerre is false and completely false. There's an accumulation of what? When the president of OM, the most popular club in France, says things like that, it's terrible for French football. The message you're sending to amateur football, when you read in the newspapers every weekend about brawls, referee fights, player fights..."
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