Foot: After death threats, Alsatian referees drop the whistle

Eight hundred matches will have to be reprogrammed. The district referees decided not to officer between Friday and Sunday, to mark the blow after death threats against one of them, in Strasbourg, at the end of March.

"T的en will not come out alive", "we know where you live" : caught as a target in an amateur match in Strasbourg at the end of March, Anthony, a volunteer referee for 10 years, decided to hang up the whistle.

It's a first: no district football match, senior and youth will be held in Alsace this weekend as a result of unacceptable behaviors towards referees. If those we interviewed in the Molsheim and Obernai region were also able to experience complicated situations, they are however dubious about the decision taken.

The whistles in the closet this weekend. The arbitrators of Alsace made a strong choice: none of them will arbitrate in the region...