Some supporters are rewarded by management, during OM-Strasbourg in the Coupe de France. - James Marsh / BPI / Shutter / SIPA

  • Several thousand of the 25,000 supporters expected for OM-Strasbourg this Wednesday (9:05 p.m.) do not need to pay for their entry ticket to the Vélodrome.
  • Olympian leaders have decided to "reward" the wisest groups of supporters.
  • The decision is controversial in the spans of the Velodrome, where many supporters believe that Jacques-Henri Eyraud "divides to rule better. "

There are good and bad supporters. The good supporter, he sees a match, he sings. The bad supporter, he sees a match, he cracks. Smokes. We have just summarized, admittedly roughly, Jacques-Henri Eyraud's policy towards his supporters groups. Latest illustration to date: the management of OM has decided to offer members of Marseille Trop Puissant and the Club des amis de l'Om places for the eighth of the Marseille-Strasbourg French Cup.

Good evening Octopuses.

For the match OM- Strasbourg in the Coupe de France.
For MTP subscribers, the match will be offered. No need to take up space, you will just have to go to the gates with your subscription card and beep it like a championship match.

- MTP 1994 (@ MTP_1994_) January 21, 2020

This Wednesday (9:05 pm), the members of these two associations of the North turn will only have to present their subscriber cards to the stewards, without paying any entry ticket, to enter the Vel '. An OM spokesperson explains this new policy at 20 Minutes:

After the final of the Europa League in Lyon (in 2018), we announced to the groups that we now gave ourselves the possibility of sanctioning them in case of overflows, especially with smoke bombs. At the end of last season, we finally decided not to sanction anyone but to reward groups that never use pyrotechnics, groups that have never had the slightest remonstrance! "

The decision is badly received by supporters, whether or not they belong to the groups concerned. "Eyraud divides to rule better," plague a tenor of Commando Ultra 84, a group about which OM says they are "very vigilant".

The embarrassment of MTP

"It is certain that the CAOM does not pose any concern to the management, they are figurines from Provence", Jerry shifts. More posed, Boris, from CU84, contextualizes: “Management has already shown that it targets certain groups. We feel that they want to say: "If you don't want to suffer collective sanctions, join the less affected groups." But I find that the subscribers are rather united with their nuclei. Boris hopes that "this will not create dissension between the groups", and concludes: "But I do not think that some want to pass for fayots. "

Many MTP members seem indeed embarrassed by this OM decision. None of them picked up the phone to respond to 20 Minutes requests .

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OM hopes for 25,000 supporters, the North turn may be closed

With this partial free policy and generally advantageous rates - 10 euros for entry throughout the stadium - OM hopes between 22 and 25,000 supporters this Wednesday at the Vélodrome. "It's going pretty well," said an Olympian source on Tuesday. The leaders of Marseille have not yet decided whether or not to close the North bend in order to gather the supporters in Ganay and in the South bend. The decision is expected to be made on Tuesday afternoon.

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