Monaco To Begin Next Season On -2 Points As Punishment For Pitch Invasion After Final Home Game

Chris Wright

28th, June 2013

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By Chris Wright

Soccer - French Ligue 2 - AS Monaco v Tours - Stade Louis II

Simmer down you lot

There’s understandable hoo-ha surrounding AS Monaco’s return to the French top tier for 2013/14 given that they’ve spent vast swathes of money in their quest to assemble the world’s biggest collection of Porto alumni, with the likes of Falcao, Joao Moutinho, James Rodriguez and Ricardo Carvalho already moving to the principality for a combined fee of £115 million.

However, for all their humongous cash reserves and nouvelle riche pulling power, Dmitry Rybolovlev’s vanity project will still be forced to start the season at a disadvantage to the rest of Ligue 1, with the French League authorities (LFP) docking the club points for the pitch invasion that followed their final home league match of last season.

Having wrapped up the title, Monaco fans stormed the pitch at the Stade Louis II after the game against Le Mans on May 17th to celebrate their title win and promotion back to the big league…

The LFP have now handed Monaco a three-point penalty, with one suspended, with the club also told they will have to play one game behind closed doors.

Welcome back chaps!

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  1. Stu says:

    Of all the clubs in the world to get done for crowd trouble, Monaco would be last on my list. Did they ‘storm the pitch’ in a Bentley?

  2. Manolo Garnix says:

    There were almost more players on the pitch than fans in the crowd. Monaco is ridiculous, as well as the decision to give them a 2 point penalty.

  3. Tom the bees fan says:

    if they did this in England half the football league clubs would get a deduction. we invaded the pitch even though we got relegated, then again us Barnet fans are a bit strange and we do tend to celebrate being rubbish rather regularly.

  4. sdf says:

    epiccc

  5. Peters says:

    It would be fantastic if they missed champions league qualification by 2 points

  6. s says:

    there are some things money can’t buy

  7. rad says:

    ridiculous

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