WTF, Arsenal won!
Olympique Marseille have announced on Friday they will sent a reserve team to play arch-rivals Paris Saint Germain in Paris on Sunday. Marseille's president Pape Diouf also decided that none of the club's supporters would travel to the capital for the game after a row over security in the stadium.The Southern club's manager Jean Fernandez had announced his 17-men squad for the weekend, but Pape Diouf has decided that only a reserve team would feature at the Parc des Princes."To prove our determination and show to both the PSG directors and the French football authorities we disagree with their decisions (...), we have decided to not to send our professional squad to the match," said Diouf during a press conference on Friday."We will send a team composed of young players and professionals but not in any case can the players be considered as regular starters," he added.Diouf also announced that the club had asked their supporters not to travel for the game."We have had talks with our supporters ever since the beginning of this row. We had decided to come to Paris if two conditions were met. Firstly, that our supporters would be recover the number of tickets that they should have been granted with. And secondly that their security would be ensured," Diouf explained."The supporters understood our decision," the chairman concluded.Paris' president Pierre Blayau refused to make any comments of this decision.This decision comes after a long argument between the two clubs that took its roots in the number of tickets reserved for the travelling supporters.Marseille had first asked for 1,000 tickets to be awarded for their supporters. They were. But three days later, Marseille asked for 1,000 more.The capital club refused to meet their demand, arguing that the deadline was passed, and soon Blayau's club was accused of having sold those same tickets to their own supporters, jeopardising the security of the OM supporters."PSG made a heavy mistake which was to sell tickets reseerved for the visitors' supporters to their own fans. They had no right to do so, and did it exclusively for commercial means," Diouf accused.PSG answered through a statement in which the club strongly denied these allegations.Later on Friday, PSG announced having given the Southern club 307 extra tickets.