The president of Amiens Bernard Joannin before the audience before the Council of State, June 4, 2020. - FRANCK FIFE / AFP

This is one of the ideas put forward by Amiens to be able to organize a Ligue 1 to 22 teams next season: a French "boxing-day", that is to say playing during the end of year, as is done in the Premier League. "The championship will start again later, people are weaned from football, we have a new broadcaster who wants to oversell his championship, and it's been 3 or 4 years that we have this option in the boxes, sold by Didier Quillot himself as an extraordinary source of income ", explained to us at the end of last week Me Olivier Martin, the lawyer of the Picard club.

In this fight, the Amiens cannot count on the National Union of Professional Footballers. The union released a statement on Tuesday to state its opposition to the idea to protect the health of the players. "It is not a good solution, it is even counterproductive because it is proven that athletes need rest to be able to give, in the long term, the best of themselves and ensure the spectacle", writes the syndicate.

Because it continues to make players' health a priority, @UNFP recalls that maintaining the truce is not negotiable: athletes need rest to be able to give their best in the long term -same and ensure the show.https: //t.co/2Bnicngrnb pic.twitter.com/1SPU92p6s1

- UNFP (@UNFP) June 16, 2020

For the UNFP, Ligue 1 cannot compete with 22 teams. "The upheavals experienced by our different championships and those that the Covid-19 crisis could give rise to tomorrow if reason does not prevail - it is therefore essential to stay at most 20 clubs in Ligue 1, for example, if we want to include French professional football in the direction of progress - should not however be used as a pretext for rewriting the regulations in defiance of the Professional Football Charter, "explains the union.

The Professional Football League (LFP) must review Friday the format of Ligue 1 for the 2020-2021 season, in accordance with the request of the Council of State which suspended on June 9 the relegations of Amiens and Toulouse in Ligue 2 .

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