The Girondins now know the date of the decision of the League after the assault of a Rodez player

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The horizon of Ligue 2 should brighten on June 12 with an expected decision concerning the chaotic Bordeaux-Rodez, whose interruption after a violent act prevents to ratify the final ranking and, therefore, the ascents and descents. The disciplinary commission, meeting Monday urgently, placed the file under investigation "in view of the seriousness of the facts," said the Professional Football League (LFP). "Pending the decision, the result of the match is not counted in the ranking," she said in a statement.

The suspense will therefore stretch for another week, at least, or even more depending on the various appeals that the clubs concerned could lead. The match played Friday between Bordeaux and Rodez on the final day of Ligue 2 was permanently interrupted in the first half after the aggression, by a supporter of the Girondins, of an RAF player who had just opened the scoring.

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Jurisprudence

This match was decisive both for Bordeaux, engaged in a distance sprint with Metz for the accession to Ligue 1, and for Rodez, the fight with Annecy to avoid relegation. At 1-0 in favour of the visitors, Bordeaux missed the climb to the elite while Rodez escaped the descent into the National. Several options are possible: a match to replay and/or a points penalty for Bordeaux, for example. "The decision will be rendered at the end of the session of Monday, June 12, 2023, at 13 p.m., during which the instructor will submit his report," said the League. "Pending the decision, the result of the match is not counted in the ranking."

The Girondins de Bordeaux reacted to the decision by regretting that the commission did not "quickly replay the match", a solution that "would have made it possible to meet the sporting constraints of calendar", according to the club in a statement. For Bordeaux, the case law does not encourage optimism since the latest incidents involving fans and players have caused heavy sanctions for the host clubs.

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Nice and Lyon already sanctioned

For example, Nice received two penalty points (and one suspended) after excesses during the reception of OM in August 2021. Lyon lost one point after a bottle throw on Marseillais Dimitri Payet in November of the same year. These matches, both definitively stopped, have certainly been replayed. But the situation this time is more complex while the season is supposed to be over. For its part, Bordeaux has postponed the holidays of its players by a week in view of a possible match to be replayed.

The interruption of the match on Friday, at 1-0 in favor of Rodez, had several consequences: the promotion to Ligue 1 of Metz, second, at the expense of Bordeaux, third, and the relegation of Annecy, seventeenth, doubled by Rodez, sixteenth.

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Weapon Pass

Bordeaux intends to "assert all (its) rights, as well as its rights on appeal," President Gerard Lopez said on Friday. The members of the disciplinary commission, around the president Sebastien Deneux, heard Lopez for about half an hour, Monday at midday. The Bordeaux leader did not wish to speak at his exit. Friday's incidents gave rise to a rather fierce pass of arms, Sunday by interposed communiqués, between Rodez and Annecy, its direct competitor for the maintenance.

If "no violence on a field should take place", on the other hand "take advantage of external events to profit such as the maintenance of his club, by betraying football, is also contrary to sporting ethics", launched Sébastien Faraglia, president of Annecy. The leader protested against the hypothesis of a match won on the green carpet by Rodez Aveyron Football, "because it is the most elaborate form of cheating, which is very serious". Openly and publicly suspecting the club is "a disgrace", replied the RAF. "These remarks are unacceptable, we cannot say in the same spirit that the violence is unacceptable and put the victim of these same acts of violence on trial."