Even when PSG were racking up league titles, Marseille fans could always say they were France’s only European champions. Not any more
“You put Paris on the roof of Europe,” Emmanuel Macron told Paris Saint-Germain’s squad after they won the Champions League this year. They must have been bittersweet words for the French president, an ardent Marseille fan. For 32 years, Marseille teased their fiercest rivals. “À jamais les premiers,” for ever the first, they would say, a reference to their controversial Champions League triumph in 1993. Marseille will always be the first, but they are no longer the only French side to have stood “on the roof of Europe”.
The two triumphs share little resemblance, despite both finals taking place in Munich, and both featuring opponents from Milan. Marseille’s victory, marred by the subsequent revelation of domestic match-fixing was, rather ironically, seen as the product of a drive to heighten competition in the French league. PSG’s win, in contrast, was facilitated by the absence of it.
Continue reading…Even when PSG were racking up league titles, Marseille fans could always say they were France’s only European champions. Not any moreBy Get French Football News“You put Paris on the roof of Europe,” Emmanuel Macron told Paris Saint-Germain’s squad after they won the Champions League this year. They must have been bittersweet words for the French president, an ardent Marseille fan. For 32 years, Marseille teased their fiercest rivals. “À jamais les premiers,” for ever the first, they would say, a reference to their controversial Champions League triumph in 1993. Marseille will always be the first, but they are no longer the only French side to have stood “on the roof of Europe”.The two triumphs share little resemblance, despite both finals taking place in Munich, and both featuring opponents from Milan. Marseille’s victory, marred by the subsequent revelation of domestic match-fixing was, rather ironically, seen as the product of a drive to heighten competition in the French league. PSG’s win, in contrast, was facilitated by the absence of it. Continue reading…
