The disciplinary commission of the Professional Football League (LFP) sanctioned the 5 players expelled during PSG-OM, last Sunday and, above all, it is investigating the case of the Marseillais Alvaro Gonzalez to investigate possible racist insults towards Neymar .

For Virginie Phulpin, this shows that the authorities will perhaps finally begin to take the problem of racism seriously.

There will be an investigation.

The members of the disciplinary commission of the Professional Football League (LFP) will dissect the videos, look for images of isolated cameras after which we have been running unsuccessfully since Sunday evening to try to find out what Alvaro Gonzalez could have said for make Neymar trip.

Racist insults or not?

Impossible to know for the moment so the player of the Olympique de Marseille is presumed innocent.

But just the fact of investigating, that means that we admit the possible possibility that there may be racism in football.

Noël Le Graët, lunar words

This is already a first step on the part of the authorities after the lunar words of Noël Le Graët on the subject.

Racism in football?

But no, that doesn't exist, look I have a black friend who was applauded when he scored a goal.

This is more or less the tenor of the words of the President of the French Football Federation (FFF).

Denial, in peace.

Hide this racism that I cannot see.

Mr. Chairman, I do not know if you imagined burying the problem by pretending it did not exist, but you only rekindled the controversy.

And finally, paradoxically, it may not be worse.

Because after such an outing, the disciplinary committee had no real choice but to show its goodwill.

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SOS Racisme also accuses the federation and the league of not taking the problem seriously.

After the words of Noël Le Graët, it is difficult to prove that the association for the fight against racism is wrong.

The best way not to deal with a problem is to say it doesn't exist.

We make it disappear.

However, in France, we are always ready to take offense, rightly obviously, when, for example, in Italy, we hear racist insults coming down from the stands.

And there would be no racism with us?

Obviously it is.

From the issue of quotas for players of foreign origin to the insults that punctuate amateur matches, there is racism in French football.

No more than anywhere else in society, but of course it exists.

And just the fact that the disciplinary commission diligently investigates can move things forward because it means that the authorities do not want to let anything go.