i spoke earlier to a french journalist. french football journalist sara menai has been keeping up to date with the developments of this story. now, from what we know, as you said, french prosecutors have opened up an investigation in paris at the beginning of the month, beginning of august. paul pogba is understood to have said that he was trapped by childhood friends and two men armed with rifles during an incident that apparently took place in paris in march. so the player today claims to be the victim of threats. he said to the french police officers who interviewed him that the gang demanded 13 euros million from him. so apparently those people came to manchester, but also to turin, where paul pogba plays now, to try and intimidate him. and that s when at the juventus training centre in italy, he recognised his brother mathias pogba among the suspects and that s whenjuventus
in the french game over the weekend. yesterday s ligue i game at lyon was abandoned after the marseille captain dimitri payet was hit by a bottle thrown from the stands, that s the second time this season that he has been struck. france s sports minister has today said the survival of french football at stake . i m joined now by french football journalist sara menai, we spoke about this before. i m guessing we ve reached a critical point with others, haven t we? yes. point with others, haven t we? yes, we had. point with others, haven t we? yes, we had- it s point with others, haven t we? yes, we had. it s getting point with others, haven t we? yes, we had. it s getting worse, - point with others, haven t we? yes we had. it s getting worse, to be honest. unfortunately these happen all the time to him. violence is his return. so far six games have been suspended in only three months. there has been crowd trouble, we don t see that in italy and germany and england. the premier lea
but crowd trouble in france stole the headlines, from le classique between marseilles and paris saint germain. fans were throwing objects onto the pitch, and one even made it onto the field, getting close to psg star lionel messi. it s not the only incident of fan trouble in france this season. french football journalist sara menai joins me now to talk more about this. how serious should we take this incident that we saw at the weekend between psg and marseilles, because the psg fans were barred from going to this match because they thought there was going to be trouble? yes. there was going to be trouble? yes, aood there was going to be trouble? yes, good evening. there was going to be trouble? yes, good evening, french there was going to be trouble? i2: good evening, french football literally wrestles with this since fans return. last year. there is barely a single fixture without the game being closed due to troubles with fans invading the pitch. ligue one problem with fan viole
of stewards, policemen, but still the trouble takes place the sub the authorities, every time, they look quite unprepared for those events. and, yes, it is a society issue. as dimitri payet commented last night after the game, we need real punishments in france. we cannot win till someone gets injured or worse. sara menai, think you very much indeed for that. sara menai, french footballjournalists. thank you very much indeed. finally, it s been announced that a friendly match between two of diego maradona s former clubs will take place in saudi arabia in december just over a year after his death. boca juniors where maradona enjoyed his greatest moments will face barcelona in riyadh, barca the club where maradona spent two years in the early 80s before enjoying great success with napoli. the match is being called the maradona cup and will celebrate the memory of one of the greatest players to ever grace the game. amazing footage there. that is it from us on sportsday. we will
to me. every time i dream about it, i get goose bumpe to me. every time i dream about it, i get goose bumps. the match between nice and marseille in ligue one was abandoned last night after a brawl broke out between players and spectators. marseilles dimitri payet was hit by a bottle thrown from the crowd, and he sparked a pitch invasion at the allianz arena when he threw it back. the chaotic scenes that followed saw the match halted for half an hour before the game was called off, with marseille refusing to carry on, claiming that some of their players had been injured. let s get more on this from the french football journalist sara menai. sara, shocking scenes, and lots of investigations are under way from local authorities in niece to the french football federation. what is the latest? good evening, yes, as you said shocking and shameful. well for now,