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Marseille fans take treatment of ‘traitor’ Valbuena to ridiculous levels
Published 21:32 20 Sept 2015 BST
Updated 21:51 20 Sept 2015 BST
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Every football team has that one player who their fans despise for the manner in which they left the club.
When he returns, the response will generally be a foul-mouthed chant or two, and maybe some vitriolic booing. As bad as the actions of the traitor/Judas/snake (delete as appropriate) may be, you'd never go as far as making an effigy of a former player and bringing it to the ground, right? If you said yes, you're clearly not a Marseille fan. Mathieu Valbuena returned to the Stade Velodrome for the first time since trading France for Russia (and subsequently returning to Ligue 1 with Lyon), and this is the reception he received. https://twitter.com/itsultralife01/status/645677466649030656 It didn't stop with the fans either - Marseille's Romain Alessandrini earned himself an early bath for this challenge on the French international. At least we'll call it a challenge. It was almost more of an assault. https://twitter.com/GFN_France/status/645691172321558534 There was bad blood throughout, up to the point that the game had to be stopped for a full 20 minutes. We imagine we haven't seen the end of this. https://twitter.com/Jon_LeGossip/status/645700731937255424Most Viewed in sport
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