Marseille (AFP)
The oldest supporter group in France, the Commando Ultra of Marseille, celebrated its 35th anniversary with a spectacular "tifo" on Sunday against Saint-Etienne, one of its great traditional rivals, in the match of the 4th day of the League 1.
The club celebrated its 120 years and sported a special jersey, with the blue cross of the city of Marseille barring all his white tunic.
The members of the CU84, at the origin of the ultra movement in France, drew with their T-shirts the number 35 on all the bottom of the South stand, then deployed on a "tifo", a show of bits of papers, their symbol, a skull with a sailor's cap.
Another group, Marseille Trop Puissant (MTP), founded by the legendary supporter Patrice De Peretti (known as "Depé"), was celebrating its 25th anniversary, in the bend across the North.
The controversies around homophobic songs in the stadiums have not been forgotten.
No song on this theme at kickoff, but a long banner with a message from the South Winners: "The LFP uses homophobia to sodomize our freedoms.In Paris you always have pretexts in Bois de Boulogne for us put it ".
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