ETC

• In 2009 Bruno derrien published a book called "A bas l'arbitre" (down with the ref), which was a success. In it Derrien names names and that didn't go well with some former referees. For instance with Marc Batta and Jaen-Marie Lartigot, who called Derrien a thief.
• Derrien was demoted in his last year as a referee because of a few bad decisions and when the referee inspector wrote a favorable report the man got a phone call from Jean-Marie Lartigot, another inspector telling him to write that Derrien made a few bad calls. Derrien took a lawyer to fight his relegation but lost.
  All this was part of a war between the referees and two rival referee's unions. referees and referees inspectors took sides and forgot the bigger picture which is that no French referee took part of the Euro 2008.
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