The Vélodrome is already boiling…

By: Magnusson | September 18th, 2007

In two hours our 2007/2008 Champions League campaign starts. Marseille has been showing a united front i the last four days. Albert Emon has not been adressing his future and both José Anigo and Pape Diouf have been denying the reports that this will be Coach Emon’s last match at the helm of our squad no matter what. We hope not but if Marseille loses at home or doesn’t show any spirit, Albert’s run will be coming to an end rather quickly. Lorik Cana assured us that his guys will show a very different display tonight. We’re tired of the declarations, we want actions now. We’re not happy seeing players playing for themeselves as Mamadou Niang confirmed last sunday on RMC. On french Television channel Canal+, possibly the next coach Didier Deschamps weighed in and said that the main responsible for Marseille’s lack of results are the players, adding that many players on this team do not deserve to be wearing the jersey and that he believes that if the plyers were fighting hard enough, the fans could forgive them anything.
But enough with the threats on the players lives, we’ve seen worse and Marseille seems to forget that when Drogba was here, we did go to the final of the UEFA Cup but we were saved from relegation at the 36th round. So let’s be reallistic and support. There’s no need for the fans to be booing the players like they have been at the end of the Toulouse game.
The only thing that reassures me is the fact that there will be 15.000 survolted turkish fans tonight and our fans will be too busy trying to vocally surpass them to be booing the players. For the first time in a long time, Marseille will be playing away in the Vélodrome. Here are the lineups: