Every day, the morning of Europe 1 looks back on one of the sporting events that make the news.
This Tuesday, Virginie Phulpin comes back to Mediapro's proposal to continue broadcasting Ligue 1 matches beyond January 31 but without paying.
According to her, the broadcaster does not care about the world of football.
The Professional Football League will put the TV rights to the French championship back on sale in the next few days.
The call for tenders should be very short to find another broadcaster from the beginning of February.
For Virginie Phulpin, fortunately it must be fast, because Mediapro had once again dared to propose a solution which was not one.
The deadbeat broadcaster dares everything, that's even how we recognize it.
Mediapro has sent the League a letter offering to continue broadcasting the matches until the end of the season.
No, but really it's too kind!
This sense of sacrifice to avoid the black screen in French football.
If we summarize, Mediapro acquired the rights to Ligue 1 for 830 million euros, launched its Telefoot channel, broadcast the matches, did not pay its drafts, ended up being ousted by the League leaving the bloodless French football and its own employees on the floor, and now the broadcaster wants to play it big lord?
You have to be serious.
Mediapro especially wanted to afford a free half-season.
Here is a revolutionary idea!
So how do we, as viewers, also offer it to us for free, our half-season, or do we invent a new fable of the vulture and the pigeons?
As a crisis profiteer, Mediapro arises there, a model of its kind.
So it would be better if the call for tenders for the resale of the Mediapro lots went very quickly, to avoid the absolute cynicism of seeing this broadcaster broadcast a few more matches, to avoid seeing the one who sank the boat playing the savior black screen.
Normally the Mediapro channel, Téléfoot, stops on January 31.
If ever there are a few days of beating between this date and the end of the new tender, as much as the matches are broadcast elsewhere, right?
TF1, M6 and France Télévisions have also offered the League to broadcast meetings.
Let's be honest, these groups give themselves a clear conscience by saying that they want to help out the League, but above all they want to get some football back on the cheap.
So what ?
At least they didn't take French football down.
Virginie Phulpin prefers to see a few matches in the clear until the end of the call for tenders rather than giving Mediapro any gift.
Can you imagine football in the clear, for everyone, the time of a parenthesis?
It would brighten up our curfew evenings.
And that would give visibility to our championship which is so lacking.
Once again, thanks to the Sino-Spanish broadcaster.
And if we want to see the adventures of a gentleman burglar, we will rather choose Arsène Lupine than Mediapro.