Faced with football clubs that have still not ratified the Ligue 1 championship and are looking for a way to end the current season and, for the vast majority, to influence the final ranking, the Minister of Sports, Roxana Maracineanu, returned the points on the "i". At the microphone of RTL, Thursday April 30, she called "Sports bodies" to take "Their responsibilities", insisting that the season is over: “I think the signal that the Prime Minister made in his speech was clear, simple. It's complicated to have voices that contradict each other. "
She invited the clubs to "Anchor yourself on certain things, the new season", stating, however, that a recovery in August "Would go against what the Prime Minister proposed", but not excluding that matches will be held behind closed doors before September: "If gatherings of less than 5,000 people are allowed, which has not been said", she said.
“The subject is very simple. There is a major health plan. We thought that at the end of April, we were going to replay. Then it was late June, July. Now we're talking about August. We are not sure. September, we don't know. The priority of priorities is the survival of our fellow citizens ", for his part explained, on Francetvinfo the president of AS Saint-Etienne, Bernard Caïazzo. "For me, the classification aspects are secondary. It’s even, in this situation, ashamed to hear that ”, he added.