First it was Saturday, then it was Friday, then it was Saturday again, and now it may yet be Friday, but more likely Saturday. There's been a lot of to-ing and fro-ing this week, centred round a rather unseemly spat between Lyon and Bordeaux over the kick-off time of OL's match this weekend. It's all about another match entirely, the Champions League quarter-final between the two teams next Tuesday. Before the draw, Lyon asked for their match to be moved to Friday to give them more time to prepare for the Champions League. Permission granted by the French league, but when the draw threw the two French teams together, Bordeaux started getting uppity.
Les Girondins are playing in the League Cup final on Saturday (presumably immovable), and when their request to UEFA to move the Champions League game to Wednesday failed, they asked to the French league to move Lyon's league match against Grenoble back to Saturday (in the interests of fairness, you understand). Permission granted. Result - Lyon not happy at all, and they appealed the decision. Appeal turned down, so they appealed again, to a (presumably) higher body (the national Olympic and sporting committee). However, the last ditch effort looks likely to fail, so it seems OL will have to play Saturday after all, and meanwhile Grenoble has been watching from the sidelines getting increasingly annoyed that nobody seems to have asked their opinion in the whole affair. French sports politics is just like the real thing - entertaining nonsense.
