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« Je n'arrivais pas à dormir » : le mal d’Antoine Dupont à digérer

Antoine Dupont of France interacts with Referee Ben O’Keeffe during the Rugby World Cup France 2023 Quarter Final match between France and South Africa at Stade de France on October 15, 2023 in Paris, France. (Photo by Hannah Peters/Getty Images)

Le demi de mêlée vedette de l’équipe de France, Antoine Dupont, a révélé qu’il avait ressenti une « injustice » telle lors du quart de finale de la Coupe du Monde de Rugby 2023 contre l’Afrique du Sud qu’il avait dû revoir le rugby dès le lendemain, après n’avoir dormi que quelques heures.

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Le résultat du quart de finale pour la France était exactement le même qu’en 2019, une défaite 20-19 contre le Pays de Galles, mais le sentiment cette fois-ci était très différent.

Pendant le match, Dupont et d’autres joueurs français avaient manifesté leur frustration en essayant de s’adapter au style de l’arbitre néo-zélandais Ben O’Keeffe.

Dans un face à face passionnant avec la légende du football Thierry Henry pour la série Bros.Stories, Antoine Dupont a expliqué combien il avait eu « besoin » de revoir le match quelques heures plus tard, même si « au final ça ne change rien ».

« En 2019, on s’est fait éliminer d’un point, le même, alors qu’on menait de 12 ou 13 points à un quart d’heure de la fin, mais je n’ai jamais revu le match », a-t-il raconté à Thierry Henry.

« Ce match-là, j’en avais besoin. Je n’arrivais pas à dormir, alors j’ai regardé le match le lendemain.

« Parce qu’on a toujours une impression sur le terrain, et parfois, en revoyant le match, c’est différent.

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« C’était pour voir si ce sentiment d’injustice était réel ou non. »

Le demi de mêlée s’est montré ouvertement critique juste après la défaite, déclarant qu’il ne pensait pas que « l’arbitrage était à la hauteur ».

À la suite de ces critiques, Ben O’Keeffe avait balayé les commentaires en disant qu’ils faisaient partie de la charge émotionnelle.

« C’est évidemment une période très chargée en émotion », avait déclaré O’Keeffe à NewsHub à l’époque. « J’essaie juste de respecter ça et de leur donner de la distance. »

Une évaluation de World Rugby sur la performance a mis en évidence cinq erreurs majeures avec les décisions d’O’Keeffe, dont la plupart sont allées dans le sens de l’Afrique du Sud.

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La France a bénéficié de deux fautes majeures qui n’ont pas été relevées et qui ont permis au jeu de se poursuivre.

Dupont a expliqué que même s’il aura probablement une autre chance de soulever le trophée William Webb Ellis, il regrettera ce « cauchemar ».

« J’aurai l’occasion de la gagner [la Coupe du monde] peut-être, mais nous regrettons ce match », a-t-il assuré à Henry.

« Il n’y a pas d’autre solution que de dormir et de se réveiller en espérant que ce n’est qu’un cauchemar.

« Tout ce que vous voulez, c’est dormir et vous réveiller en espérant que ce n’est qu’un cauchemar. Malheureusement, il faut l’accepter et aller de l’avant. »

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RedWarriors 3 hours ago
France deny England and clinch Six Nations title in Paris

I think we need to call out the red card non-decision here and acknowledge the damage that France, through Galthie, have done to confidence in the officaiting and citing process.

It started when Garry Ringrose had club matches included in his ban following similar precedents for (Atonio, Haouas, Danty) who were all carded/cited in match just before fallow week and club matches counted. Ntamacks citing was in week 1 and harder to demonstrate availability for club match with another International match between. Preceednt ~(O’Mahony 2021) was followed. Reading the written decision for Ntamack shows that Galthie understood this perfectly. Yet after the Ringrose ban included club matches, Galthie publicly goes berserk screaming ‘Injustice (against France”. Again, he knows the precedents for Ringrose are all French and indeed the only person preceding Ntamack to have club matches count in that situation was France’s Willemse.

The media swallowed this up wholesale and the story started circulating and being added to without a single journalist/pundit (except rush Mirror) actually reading the Ntamack decision. Sneaky Ireland had better briefs than honest naive France was one random addition by a pundit which becamse accpeted fact without checking etc and added to the circulation.

Angered by losing his star player Galthie again lashes out. He knows know he can de facto attack individual players, the media won’t intervene and as long as he doesnt directly attack an individual official he will stay out of trouble.

So he attacks players who then het threatened by some lunatic French supporters online. Ireland are ‘Butchers’ apparently. The passive head contact earning Nash a yellow now becomes a double head hit on Barrassi, requiring a double red.

France who have more dangerous tackle citings under Galthie than all other six nations combined. They get more favourable outcomes than all other teams. poor France are now the victims of great injustice. It is farce.

But it paid off.

Mauvaka struck the Scottish Scrum half with a diving head butt in Sundays match. Its a clear red. Scotlands back line attack looked superiors to France’s and Scotland were there or there abouts.

What I can only assume is the chilling affect on Galthie’s public attacks Carley send it to the bunker. A deliberate head butt is a clear red on more than one count. There is no doubt, bo grey area.

If thats a red card do France win the match? I would say that Scotland are likely winners, which would have meant England winning the title.

Spilled milk now, but World Rugby, the citing commisioners and officials cannot allow big Unions to publicly intimidate the officiating process and attack individual players from other teams.

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