The treatment Mathieu Valbuena received at the Stade Velodrome during Marseille vs Lyon Ligue 1 tie, reminds us that football is still played with passion, and fans still have a role to play. With loads and loads of money coming from the owner’s pockets, we often tend to believe that fans are largely ignored (to a certain extent, true) these days, but events such as this just shakes the very root of modern football.
Tony Evans, the former Editor of The Times, once wrote in an article “The Soul of Liverpool in 50 moments” – “the culture of football is about more than players and managers, in ten years, most of them will have moved on.