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‘Too many’ matches stopped over homophobic chants, says head of French football

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Noël Le Graët, president of the French Football Federation (FFF), said that the FFF would not instruct referees to stop matches except in cases when a "whole stadium" was guilty of homophobic chanting. "I think we're stopping too many matches!

That makes certain government ministers happy, but it bothers me. Football can't be taken hostage by vulgarity," said Le Graët in an interview with regional newspaper Ouest-France. "Matches have been stopped when they shouldn't have been," Le Graët

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