The referee of Monaco-Nîmes threatened to stop the meeting of Ligue 1 Sunday afternoon after songs hostile to the professional football league ("The League, you bugger") coming from the parkkage fans Nîmes. A scene that had already occurred Saturday in Brest.
Instructions to referees
Alerted by referee Amaury Delerue in the 22nd minute of the match who heard songs "The League is Encompassing you" or "LFP, will fuck you", the speaker of the stadium Louis II of Monaco has issued a warning to the public, greeted by whistles. The match resumed in the wake as Monegasque supporters launched similar songs.
Instructions were sent to referees before the start of the season to stop homophobic songs during matches. On August 16, the Ligue 2 match between Nancy and Le Mans was stopped a few minutes by the referee after a singing for the LFP, a first in France. This followed a first warning from the speaker regarding a song hostile to the great rival of Nancy, Metz ("Messins are fags"). Sports Minister Roxana Maracineanu later extended her "congratulations" to referee Mehdi Mokhtari for having decided to stop the match "for homophobic abuses" in a message on Twitter.
Teasing and streamers
Since then, supporters have targeted the minister on social networks and in stadiums, with mocking formulas that support the difficulty of defining what is a homophobic act and what is not. In Angers, on Saturday evening, a banner was briefly brandished in the kop during the meeting Angers-Metz arbitrated by Stephanie Frappart: "Referee fucked, is it homophobic for a woman?"
In a statement on Wednesday, the league said that the disciplinary committee would review Wednesday, August 28 the records of games of L1, L2 and Coupe de la Ligue "for which songs insulting and / or homophobic were recorded in the reports of after match ".