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Manchester United and France defender Patrice Evra has once again found himself in the midst of a controversy with the French Football Federation (FFF) after openly speaking against four football presenters, BBC Sport reports.
The left-back made no secret of his feelings about one-time World Cup winner Bixente Lizarazu and three other pundits on French television and labelled them “tramps”.
Evra stated that they were intentionally ruining his image.
“People have a good impression of me, it won’t be these tramps who dirty my image,” Evra said.
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“There are some pundits with whom I will soon settle my differences with. They want to sell a lie to the French people that Evra is disliked. But that is not the case at all.
“I do not know what Lizarazu has against me. I was twice voted best left-back in the world, four times the best left-back in the Premier League. Him, I don’t even know if he was ever voted best left-back in the world.”
Lizarazu, who lifted the 1998 World Cup with France, said: “He blames us for dirtying his image but he is doing a great job of it himself.”
The issue stated when Evra gave his fellow players a pep-talk at half time during the 4-2 win over Belarus, a talk which the presenters found needles.
The 32-year-old then went ahead with his bashing of the pundits after he helped his country overcome Finland 3-0. The FFF now want Evra to account for his behaviour.
An FFF statement said: “Following the remarks made by Patrice Evra in an interview to Telefoot after France v Finland, president Noel Le Graet and coach Didier Deschamps, while recognising that no attack was made against the FFF, the France team, the coach or the players, have decided to ask Patrice Evra to come to explain certain statements about the broadcasters.”
The France international was in the eye of a storm in 2010 when he was axed by the FFF for 5 matches.
The former France skipper had been absent for training in 2010 after Nicolas Anelka had been dropped from the World Cup squad for speaking out against ex-national coach Raymond Domenech.
