In Brest, maintaining Ligue 1 celebrated as a title [Diaporama] – Brest

It was a Sunday not to dwell on dessert. The Stade Brestois had an appointment with its destiny, a victory sufficient to ensure its maintenance in the elite of French football. So Anne-Marie and Sylvain sent the dishes: they had an appointment with the Francis-Le Blé stadium. For the first time.

Because the temples of these Brestois look more like a theater or a concert hall than the cauldron of the rue de Quimper, and it will have taken free seats, as well as the son and his football fan friend as an alibis, to cross the not. And discover the joys of football from here: an opponent who seems to be playing better, this Clermont goal like a blow to the head and the madness that wins: an almost immediate equalizer, the tension on the field, this player who is booed without more to know why, and these uncontrollable leaps of joy when Brest takes the advantage…

“We thought it was dead”

“But it’s excellent, in fact,” breathes Sylvain. Yes, and even more. Because our neophytes know nothing of these last few months, these evenings of defeat when the worst, Ligue 2, cast its insistent shadow on the shoulders of Honorat and company, seeming to whisper in their ear these terrifying names: Rodez, Quevilly- Rouen, Laval…

Romane and Fabien know, from the height of their 19 years and the ten games seen at Le-Blé this season, how tasty this victory of the day is. “At the end of October, we thought it was dead. But since then, the guys have put what was needed on the field: we will still be behind them next year”.

The output fumis

Fabien, 34, will also be there, the subscriber who has not missed a game at home “for seven years”: “We hung on properly. But afterwards, it’s our level, as the president says: between tenth in Ligue 1 and tenth in Ligue 2. One day we will come down, that’s normal. But not this year! “.

No, this year again, jubilation spilled onto the street, and in front of the other temple, the Penalty, where smoke bombs and songs celebrated this maintenance for a long time as if it were a title or a a mounted.

“Tomorrow is a public holiday”, even proclaimed Ty-Zefs, between two times of the refrain “We are in Ligue 1”. A song as a relief, for supporters who will have fought there until the end, too.