Thursday, when concluding the hearing of OL, Amiens and Toulouse before the Council of State, the judge in charge of the file Bertrand Dacosta had asked that he be given, among other things, clarifications about the dated August 3. Supposed to be the limit fixed by UEFA to finish the championship, it had been at the heart of the debates on several occasions, Jean-Michel Aulas hammering that it had in reality nothing of an obligation and therefore that the government and the LFP had been wrong based on it to end Ligue 1.
Not so obvious, in fact, according to the clarifications provided by UEFA this weekend. In a letter sent to OL, the president of the body Alexandre Ceferin explains that if this date "will not be officially confirmed [only] at the meeting of the Executive Committee on June 17", he does ask "to all national associations to respect this deadline ”.
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- 20 Minutes Sport (@ 20minutesSport) June 4, 2020A small blow for the Lyon boss, who however did not take so much trouble to admit defeat at the slightest annoyance. Full of resources, as usual, he reviewed his plans. "We are taking up a proposal to resume the championship in a play-offs - play-downs form, which would end on August 2," explained his lawyer Gilles Le Chatelier on RMC. It is compatible with the UEFA calendar. "
Sufficient for the Council of State, which also has in its hands the arguments of Amiens and Toulouse concerning the inequity of the classification in the quotient established by the League, to decide for a recovery? The suspense will not last long. The summary judge must make his order Monday or Tuesday.
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