Roland Romeyer has been crossing his fingers all week to hope for a miracle, it has not happened. He was then thinking only of the result of the match, played on the pitch, against a Monegasque team which remained on five successes in a row and which stretched its series to six. He did not imagine that the anniversary of the Green Angels, who were celebrating their 30th birthday, would also probably affect the end of the Green season.
If the Saint-Etienne leaders suspected that the evening would not be limited to otherwise magnificent tifos, they probably did not suspect the astronomical quantity of smoke bombs and fireworks that returned in force to the southern kop. We could talk for hours about the merits of their use, but the fact remains that they are prohibited. By choosing a massive cracking…