OM: A big warning to Lyon’s supporters of Prud’homme

For the club’s official website, Ron Club General Director Laurent Prud’homme spoke about the security context of the upcoming match against Olympique de Marseille on Sunday evening: “For me, a football match should be more of a spectacle. A show is made up of actors and an audience. We only regret the absence of Marseille supporters. There was a prefectural decree and it is shameful. If it is connected to what happened in the first step, I don’t see the connection. I don’t think we can prevent violence by preventing spectators from coming to watch matches. Our supporters are well aware that nothing will be left unturned at OL until the end of the season, and for a high-stakes match like Sunday’s, we all have to be flawless. I am available for the government to work on this problem of violence. Collective sanctions discharge obligations. We are for individual restrictions

Prud’homme wants to be obscure!

Then he continued: “The first message is a big thank you to the supporters. The way the supporters have worked since the start of the season has been remarkable. We are working every day to come out of this situation. The supporters have been impeccable since the start of the season. When they stop supporting for a few minutes during the last match, it doesn’t shock me at all. I trust supporters because they support the organization. They want the club saved, the organization saved. They know that negative actions can reflect badly on the club. We will pay close attention to it. We will be vague. Nets will be installed, there will be shields. No revenge, my point is not to say it’s Om’s fault. All I am saying is that we should not trivialize violence. We have supporters all over France, they are people who love their club. They spend a lot of money and time to support their club, even if it doesn’t play very well. This should be encouraged. It is a real community. We must protect all members of this community

Finally, he returned to the first leg: “That our supporters were banned from the stadium during the match on December 6, when OL was the victim in history, is unacceptable to me. There were some very serious attacks. You all saw it with Fabio who is deformed for life. Buses have been attacked, it is very serious. We were asked to replay this match, but we were asked to replay it without our supporters. They have done nothing for our supporters. We can talk about what happened to our supporters in the stadium, it is unacceptable and I will talk about it. Today, as a club, we know that nothing will be saved until the end of the season. We were victims. We are the victims who were not heard and punished. No sports were allowed for opposing clubs. We were criticized for not coming with an armored bus. There was triple glazing. Three paving stones were thrown in a row to break this window, to reach Fabio Grosso.