Every day, the morning of Europe 1 looks back on one of the sporting events that make the news.
This Thursday, Virginie Phulpin returns the decision not to sanction Alvaro or Neymar following the excesses during the last PSG / OM match.
They risked up to ten matches of suspension but the Professional Football League felt that it did not have sufficient evidence against the players.
No sanctions against Neymar and Alvaro Gonzalez.
The Professional Football League considers that it does not have sufficient evidence against the players for their behavior during PSG / OM.
For Virginie Phulpin, she couldn't make a worse decision.
If you feel like hurling racist or homophobic slurs on a soccer field, go ahead, no problem.
Just be careful that it's not audible on TV.
That way we can say we don't know, and it will turn creamy.
That's the message of the Professional Football League, right?
No sanctions against Alvaro Gonzalez and Neymar, no one saw it coming.
It must be said that it's been three weeks since everyone dissects the images of sweet words exchanged by the Marseillais and the Parisian during this calamitous PSG / OM, with a lot of help from lip-reading specialists in France, Spain and Brazil.
So it seemed obvious that the League had no choice but to apply severe penalties.
It was necessary to mark the occasion.
As an example, to clearly show that discriminatory remarks cannot be tolerated on a football field.
We foolishly thought we understood that it was a national cause barely a year ago.
Nay, it is bad knowledge of the disciplinary committee and its ability to decide to decide nothing.
We don't know, we don't have tangible proof, come on, let's pass the sponge.
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If there is no tangible proof, at the same time, it seems normal not to sanction the players.
Virginie Phulpin still has the odd impression that the disciplinary committee is the only one not to have found any evidence.
There is room for improvement in lip reading.
The real problem is that we all know more or less the racist and homophobic insults that the two players exchanged.
Everything is in the more or less.
It is true that the judges, if they do not have absolute certainty, are probably legally right not to sanction.
Morally less.
The very unpleasant feeling that this gives, as we know more or less the intolerable content of their remarks, is that there is a form of impunity.
Virginie Phulpin especially thinks that in the League, we said to ourselves that it was the best way to calm people down and move on.
But it is missed, if we judge by the epidermal reactions which have proliferated since Wednesday evening.
Anyway, in this story, the League could only come out as the loser and the target of criticism.
She could have done it with her head held high, making the fight against discrimination her sole objective.
It is off the mark.
And good luck to the educators in the football clubs in spreading the good word now.