Louis Nicollin is No Friend of the Gays
M. Nicollin will not be wearing one of these.
As surely all of you are aware, Montpellier lost their second consecutive match this past weekend, falling 2-1 to Auxerre. Considering that this dropped the southern club into 4th place (the horror!), president Louis Nicollin was not pleased with the result. He was particularly upset that his club had to finish the match with only 10 players after Alberto Costa received 2 YCs within a 15-minute span. Nicollin, who is known as an explosive personality in French sporting circles (and who is apparently not important enough to rate a Wikipedia page in English), argued that Auxerre midfielder Benoit Pedretti had done some Ronaldo-like overacting specifically in order to get Costa sent off with a second yellow card.
Unfortunately for Nicollin, he noted that the play-acting was not very masculine and referred to Pedretti as a “tarlouze”, which translates roughly to “poofter” or, more clinically, “a passive homosexual.” Um, yeah. The French Football Federation is going to want to speak to you about that. Although Nicollin has already apologized to Pedretti, he told L’Equipe (referring to speaking with Pedretti) that “We can speak freely, talk to each other. We’re guys, not chicks.” Well, then – that’s sure to quiet down any controversy.
While Pedretti has already stated that he considers the matter closed, noting that he himself has said things he isn’t proud of in the heat of a match, it should be noted that Nicollin also stated that Montpellier would “take care of” Pedretti during the return match. March 13th should be an interesting match.
Below: video of the comments, as well as both of Costa’s YCs.
Comments
Did Michael J Fox design that button?
No, your mom did.
At least he didn’t call him an active homosexual.
I like how he follows up the homophobia with a bit of sexism. He should have sneaked in a jab about Algeria to score the hatespeech trifecta.
@Phil – I am fairly convinced that he would have if Pedretti were from anywhere near North Africa and was a little darker
Hey, my mom isn’t gay.
Meh. All French guys sound effeminate when speaking French.
/more Francophobia where that came from
//just made up that word
///Please don’t hate me, NY Kid
/bans Nathaniel
I wonder if there are any gay couples in France where both dudes are named Frank, or if the gay community avoids that situation to spare themselves all the Francophile jokes that assholes like me would make.
@Georger – Only because your mom is, in fact, gay, as evidenced by Anonsters post.
On a somewhat related note, is anyone else somewhat unsettled by the recent trend in names that allow two people of opposite sex, both named Taylor to date each other?
Goat: Are the two Taylors related?
@Goat – I’m more unsettled that you actually know who Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautner are.
Wait, what?
this went well
@Anon: You’ll have to go to NYK for all your questions about Taylor dating trivia.
I defer to George Carlin on any and all discussions about names. Joey, Tony and Vinny would beat the shit out of Todd, Tyler and Tucker, etc.
I still can’t get over the Roosevelts having the same last name even if they weren’t blood relatives.
Georger: Umm… they were blood relatives? (If you mean Teddy & FDR).
I was referring to FDR and his wife, FDR was fifth cousins with her and Teddy. Not blood relation to any significant degree.
consanguinity, if you will
I won’t.
@Georger with the big words.
Unfortunately, in my line of work (Genetics Division at a hospital), I get to see that word in action way too often.
You don’t get a B- in Trusts and Estates Law without having a word or two stick. Or without writing “I’m so so sorry” at the end of your exam.
Trusts and Estates. Gag me.
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