2023-11-04 01:05:12
The very suspicious draw for the Coupe de l’Indre continues to cause a lot of ink to flow. While it was announced this Thursday evening that the draw would be redone on November 8 following the controversy it had created, the one who appears on the video, the president of the cup commission Jacques Lhuilier, decided to speak. And he assures us: “for 25 years, I have always been honest. »
“I have not resigned”
The affair took on very important proportions. This Tuesday, the rumor of rigging of the draw for this Indre Cup began following a particularly strange live on Facebook. As the draw was about to begin, Jacques Lhuilier had retrieved a ball from his neighbor’s hand and opened it without placing it with the others in the bowl provided for this purpose. “They’re going to see my hand,” he then whispered, asking the person holding the camera to stop filming him. It was ES Arpheuilles-Clion-Saulnay which was therefore drawn.
This act angered many members of the Indre district. “It’s blatant, it’s cheating,” Emilia Marquette, president of the Espoir secular club Saint-Christophe, told RMC Sport, whose club was to face Arpheuilles according to this draw. The district leaders had justified themselves by putting forward a point of regulation which obliged this team to be drawn. Given the importance of the controversy, they then announced a new draw.
“I have never cheated in my life”
This Friday, Jacques Lhuilier therefore decided to speak to RMC Sport to present his point of view. “Usually the clubs travel but we have given them the habit of filming the draw, they have it live,” explained the president of the cup commission. I will never do that again. They just have to move! Usually I always have someone with me for the draw. This time I had no one. I was not going to make a comment to the five people on my committee who knew what I was going to do. That’s what’s wrong, but I’ve never cheated. I had taken the ball before in my hand to make sure I shot them. This is the mistake I made. I’ve always done it like that. I’ve never cheated in my life otherwise, I’ll stop right away. »
Jacques Lhuilier will still be present during the second draw this November 8. “I have not resigned, I am still here,” he assured. We are going to do a full print run. And this time, I will do the opposite of what I did. All competing clubs can come. If there is anyone, they will do the draw. It has always been done like this for all cuts. »
The member from the Indre district is very angry with Emilia Marquette, the president of Saint-Christophe. “I have a clean head,” he said. I never wanted to cheat. Unfortunately, I came across a club that was capable of screwing things up. » The next draw should help ease tensions and officially launch this second round of the Coupe de l’Indre.
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