We promised not to draw on football metaphors to evoke the municipal campaign in Saint-Etienne. However, Patrick Revelli, the former striker of the great team of the 1970s, is the head of the list supported by La République en Marche (LRM) while his brother, Hervé, center-forward during the European epic of 1976, campaigned for outgoing Gaël Perdriau, mayor Les Républicains (LR). However, "tackle from behind", "home shooting" and other "personal game" would have perfectly summed up the attacks that Patrick Revelli has suffered since he received the macronist nomination in September. And the agreed incantations of Caroline Abadie, member of the executive board of LRM, at the inauguration of her tenure on January 23 ("Leave arguments in the locker room ", "Occupy the land", match « not finished until the referee whistles ") Did not show great confidence in victory …
That evening, in front of the permanence, around sixty demonstrators attacked Emmanuel Macron and his politics. The next day, a procession marched against the pension reform and an appointment had to be made near the station. The hotel-bar-restaurant is called Les Poteaux Squares, named after the excuse that has been mulled over since 1976 to explain the lost European final against Bayern Munich: twice, the Greens had hit the uprights that would have let the ball pass 'they had been round, say the bad losers; on the first of these shots, Patrick Revelli had missed a header, alone against the goalkeeper … We can not escape his past.
A socialist father, a big brother at the PCF
He arrived in his little car – green -, without adviser or communicator, far from football business or professional policy. The same slightly arched silhouette as when he was spinning head down on the lawns, mustache forward, like the one that earned him the nickname "Gauls", he had presented himself the day before to the young "leftists" who called out to him to remind that he was the son of a miner and admit unvarnished the amount of his retirement, " EUR 2 900 ". An active life started at 14 years old in a garage in Gardanne, a socialist father and a big brother in the French Communist Party (PCF), a playing career led in the less bourgeois Saint-Etienne or Sochaux (admittedly, completed in Cannes), unemployment after a commercial job at Adidas ("In deep France"), holidays in Grau-du-Roi (Gard)…
