Why the postponement of the OM-PSG match is controversial | EUROtoday

Lhe alternative of date, whether or not to your marriage ceremony or for the OM-PSG match, can rapidly flip to the headache. The garden soaked in water from the Stade Vélodrome de Marseille can’t welcome gamers within the basic OM-PSG, this Sunday night. The prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône introduced the postponement of this match as a result of climate.

The Bouches-du-Rhône are positioned in orange Rain-Inondation and Thunderstorms. “There may be strong precipitation with significant risks of urban runoff” within the Marseille enclosure this night, stated the prefect, Georges-François Leclerc. The prefecture was fearful that supporters “take their car at the wrong time”, that there was “a crowd movement before the match” or that through the match there may be “a stormy risk for spectators and players”.

The sporting occasion will probably be moved this Monday, at 8 p.m., publicizes the Professional Football League (LFP), devoted to the rules in drive. “When, due to bad weather, the match could not start, it is handed over, or when it was definitively interrupted, it resumes from the minute to which it was interrupted, the next day (excluding extreme conditions), at a schedule set by the LFP services. Monday, the weather will be there and the 700,000 spectators expected at the Vélodrome as well.

Postponed, but when?

But postponing the date of the classic implies that it will now coincide with the Golden Ball ceremony in Paris. She could crowd the big favorite, Ousmane Dembélé-injured and absent from the match-, and reward the Parisian collective for his season. A simultaneity that annoys Nasser al-Khelaïfi and Parisian supporters. According to RMC, the president of PSG “may favor going to the Ballon d’Or”. However, he had pleaded for a kick -off at 3 p.m. or 5 p.m., in order to join Paris in the evening, and even suggested to move the meeting on December 2. A proposal deemed contrary to the regulations and finally dismissed.

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Marseille, for his half, wished to “play in the rules”, with out choice or bypass. The thought of ​​a basic in the course of the day has by no means seduced the Olympians, who invoked “respect for supporters”, typically at work or at college. This postponement additionally shakes up their program: the departure for his or her “Ritiro” deliberate in Rome tomorrow is postponed.

This shouldn’t be a primary: in October 2022, an OL-OM had already been reprogrammed a number of weeks later because of violent gusts of Mistral. Patience subsequently earlier than reviewing the one two sacred French golf equipment within the Champions League.