2023-11-27 21:30:00
Winner in the first leg, RC Lens travels to London this Wednesday to face Arsenal. A poster that brings back not only good memories for Tony Vairelles. Indeed, in 1998, during an Arsenal-Lens, the former Sang et Or striker was excluded. A red card that Vairelles still has across his throat today.
25 years later, RC Lens will face again Arsenal in England. In 1998, the two teams were already opposed in the Champions League and it was the Sang et Or who won (0-1). A match that Tony Vairelles had not finished, sent off in the 90th minute. 25 years later, the former player RC Lens still think about this red card, not hesitating to cry out again for injustice.
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“All my life, I will have it across my throat”
It is in comments given to lensois.com that Tony Vairelles expressed his anger about this red card received in 1998. The former RC Lens then confides: “What do I remember from the match in 1998? Personally, I have a bad memory of it. It was a great memory for the team because it was the first French victory at Wembley, especially in the Champions League. But, for me, there is still something in the throat because I am expelled at the last minute of the game because of a person who fakes. Lee Dixon comes up behind me, hits me with his shoulder and falls to the ground. All my life, I will have it across my throat.”
“I experienced injustice”
“Was there a contract on my head for this match? Yes I think so. I can explain it by several things. From the start, there were unhealthy blows, sharp jabs in the calves for example. With Martin Keown, I’m on the floor and he’s pulling my hair. I have to show it to the referee. Parlor didn’t stop “quibbling” me and I remained calm because I knew that at the slightest thing, I risked a card. As for the end, there is the icing on the cake, there is someone who pushes you, who simulates, the whole Arsenal team who descends on you and the referee, who without asking anything from his assistants , you get a red card… I was so disgusted by the match I suffered. (…) I had always been told that the English championship was a gentlemen’s championship, but after that, I no longer wanted to join England. I can’t get this out of my head. I experienced injustice,” added Tony Vairelles.
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