OL will put nets in front of the turns, the supporters are back

• OL know that they will risk a lot, on December 8 before the disciplinary committee of the LFP, because of the bottle thrown by one of their supporters on Dimitri Payet on November 21.

• The Lyon club published a press release on Tuesday in which it announced the installation of protective nets in front of the two supporters' corners.

• Already seen at Parc OL during two European seasons after the serious incidents of the match against Besiktas, they greatly displease the supporters.

An "isolated act" but a collective sanction against its two turns of supporters? This is the reflection that many OL enthusiasts are having this Tuesday, on reading the press release published by the club on its site. Nine days after the interruption of the match against OM due to a bottle throw on Dimitri Payet, OL thus indicates that it "will install nets in front of the bends".

“We do it reluctantly, assures

the Lyon stadium manager Xavier Pierrot.

Despite all the work upstream of the groups of supporters, the capos and the club, this individual act could not be prevented.

We are going to study a more lasting and less annoying solution.

“This is the first time in Ligue 1 that the Parc OL, which will be behind closed doors on Wednesday (9 pm) against Reims, will present this device intended to block possible projectiles launched by supporters.

"The club wants to cover itself as much as possible"

Like OGC Nice, which had taken the same initiative following its match against OM marked by another bottle throw at Dimitri Payet (and by an invasion of the field), OL therefore wanted to react quickly by relying on protective nets. He had already been forced to do the same from 2017 to 2019, only in European competitions, due to the two-year reprieve given by UEFA after the evening of chaos against Besiktas in the Europa League in April 2017. In case of recurrence, OL would have been immediately excluded from C3 or C1, which constituted an even greater threat than today.

“The club wants to give itself a good image with the authorities and cover itself as much as possible before going before the disciplinary committee of the LFP [December 8], decrypts Jean-Pierre, a regular at the north turn.

But I remember having a bad experience of the European Cup matches with nets.

You feel a little

and it's never pleasant, especially since everything has been going well for a very long time between the turns and the club.

There, you penalize more than 10,000 supporters for an isolated fact.

"

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"It can't be the solution to everything"

One of the leaders of the Bad Gones was quick to challenge OL on Twitter as to "compensation to be expected with the degradation of the quality of a subscription", because of the visibility clearly thwarted by these nets.

A disappointment shared by Richard, supporter of the south turn: “We know that this will answer the problem of the moment for the club but it's really boring.

We often lose sight of the balloon in these conditions.

In addition, the leaders ask for "a collective reflection marked by cold blood" and they too fall into a reaction to the emotion.

There are very few risky encounters in a season.

It is limited to the derby and the matches against OM and PSG, so why want to leave these nets permanently?

It can't be the solution for everything.

"

In place for a long time on the side of OM and ASSE, this device is not a guarantee of success.

Whether at the Vélodrome or at Geoffroy-Guichard, the nets did not prevent regular incidents, such as multiple projectile throws during OM-PSG or the smoke that landed on the lawn and even burned the nets ... a goal before the kick-off of ASSE-Angers.

"These nets can certainly retain projectiles," says Jean-Pierre.

But if guys really want to throw torches or bottles on the lawn, believe me, they'll succeed… "

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