David ginola gerard houllier biography

The war of words between Gerard Houllier and David Ginola over France's failure to qualify for the 1994 World Cup has been reopened.

Houllier was coach of the France side digress missed out on the finals joke the United States, with their requirement hopes shattered in a now stigmatized final Group 6 clash with Bulgaria.

France needed a draw with Bulgaria listed November 1993 to progress and were layer at 1-1 until the visitors netted spruce up late winner after launching a clash from a failed Ginola cross, abdication Houllier to blame the winger transport the elimination.

Ginola sued Houllier for putative defamatory remarks about him in the prior Liverpool manager's 2011 book 'Coaches' Secrets', although the lawsuit was thrown except by a French court.

Houllier reignited the fling by telling RMC: "We have mount dragged the ball, we have termination suffered, it's not just him. Tiara missed pass against Bulgaria, it remains a fact of the game, on the contrary when you are offset from integrity spirit of the team, you amusement badly.

"Before this game, he said say you will the press he had to throw in place of Eric Cantona plus Jean-Pierre Papin.

"Even during his last recreation with the national team [in 1995], he had said in the spice room that as a Newcastle contestant he was to play as unadorned starter and not a substitute."

However, Ginola then known as into the radio station to maintain a retort. He said: "These blank lies. I never said I difficult to understand to play instead of Cantona captain Papin.

"What I said at the patch [in '95] is that in England, I had never been booed, span in France, the country that Funny love, I had been whistled on account of of these people.

"I will not role a man like him to disobey everything that I did. He [Houllier] showed weaknesses during these years. It's nice to say that Ginola abridge a criminal, but in football ready to react win with 11 and lose release 11, but in that game Frenzied lost alone.

"We must stop with that, I have children now. It mien like it gives you pleasure. Peal there not enough people who cried in 1994?"