2023-12-17 13:05:10
It’s best not to look for Will Still these days. While Reims is falling in the Ligue 1 standings, the Reims technician had no heart to laugh this Saturday evening as his team suffered a fourth loss in its last five Ligue 1 matches, against Lens at the Bollaert stadium (2 -0).
It was very difficult for François Letexier, the referee of the match, to make an allusion to the future of Still, announced in the Belgian, British and then French press as a candidate for departure very soon, and more precisely to England and Sunderland, whose leaders he has already met in recent days. Rumors to which he had responded in recent days, with irony.
“It was meant to be light,” defends Letexier
“Was it my last away match in Ligue 1? That’s what the referee told me at the end of the match, Still said bitterly at the press conference. I found that funny of him. Or rather not funny at all. It wasn’t my last match at all. Unless the club fires me tomorrow. But I don’t think that’s planned. I am and will be the coach of Stade de Reims for many more months or years, I hope. The referee said to me something like: Things will be better in England. Something like that. I didn’t find it very appropriate. It’s uninteresting. »
Letexier justified this to The team, and defended himself from any malicious intent. “I simply said to him, at the end of the match: Maybe good luck in England then. It was meant to be light, with a smile and without any unhealthy intention. He misinterpreted it, I surely see frustration there, but the main thing is elsewhere. »
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