November 22nd will be a day to forget for a number of people, including Celtic players, their fans, Brendan Rodgers, but also the French print and radio media present at the Parc des Princes.
The reason for the first three is pretty obvious, considering Paris Saint-Germain thumped the Scottish Premiership champions 7-1 in the Champions League, but for the latter, it’s because they went home completely empty handed.
The match report wrote itself, really, but the exclusive quotes after the game, those gathered in the mixed zone, which the players are normally meant to go through, but on Wednesday night, none of the Paris Saint-Germain squad stopped to chat.
In fact, most of them left through a side door after the Celtic match, with only four walking past the journalists: Layvin Kurzawa, Julian Draxler, Neymar and Dani Alves.
The former Juventus and Barcelona defender stopped to have a brief chat with the Brazilian media, and then skipped past the French lot screaming “Youuuuuhouuuuuu!”.
After all, that’s all they had to write about.
When midnight came and went, jokes started to fly around, like “Well, maybe we’ll interview one of the security members”.
Quickly, though, humour turned to frustration, and when the press officer turns around quarter past midnight and says “they won’t come, I’m sorry”, a few lose it.
“It’s a scandal. I’ve never seen this. Sh***y club” is overheard, with one journalist even asking out loud: “What am I going to write for tomorrow? I can’t really write about this ‘nothing’”.
Well, that’s exactly what 20minutes did. PSG may have beaten Celtic, but they lost a few fans in the French media.
There’s no word whether Dedryck Boyata, given 1/10 by French newspaper L’Equipe, stopped for a chat.
