Despite the health measures, the shock had the scent of party evenings before Covid-19 … But with the passage of Meurthe-et-Moselle on maximum alert and in a curfew zone, this SLUC Nancy – Blois so enticing on the paper will be played in a small committee. If the Nancy club has decided to advance the meeting to 5 p.m. with the agreement of the Blésois club to avoid the closed door, it will have to be content with a gauge of 1,000 people against 5,000 previously. “We hoped to have around 4000 spectators” whispered President Aurélien Fortier on the phone, “we will lose between 9 and 10,000 euros in revenue. The economic repercussions are disastrous and in terms of sport and events, it is catastrophic… ”.
The spectrum of the suspension
In an already very gloomy context, the pill has, one suspects it, difficult to pass. Especially since the Nancy club will have to leave fans behind. “We have around 650 subscribers and almost as many partners and VIPs,” continues Aurélien Fortier, “that already makes 1,300 people. We will call them individually to take stock and see if people are on vacation. We will also ask partners who would have six or eight places to come to four ”. SLUC Nancy hopes that this will be enough to satisfy as many people as possible.
But with nearly two-thirds of Pro B clubs in a curfew zone, the organization of matches is going to look like a headache in the next six weeks. And while the club presidents must meet in “video” this Friday morning, we are already starting to talk about a temporary suspension of the season …
