paris french soccer games will be abandoned if a player or a referee is injured by a projectile thrown from the stands the government said on thursday in an attempt to quell crowd problems that have repeatedly marred ligue 1 since the start of the seasonamong other measures the government said a decision on whether to abandon a game after any crowd incident would be taken within a maximum 30 minutes after it occurred it also pledged to uphold more stringently stadium bans imposed on violent supporterslast month the match between olympique lyonnais and olympique marseille was called off almost two hours after it was suspended when marseilles dimitri payet was hit by a bottle thrown from the groupama stadium standsin total six ligue 1 games have been suspended of which two were abandoned due to crowd problems since the start of the 20212022 season in early august an issue that according to french sports minister roxana maracineanu is putting the future of french soccer at riskif a referee or a player is injured by a projectile thrown from the stands games will be systematically and definitely abandoned the government said in a statementthe sale and the possession of plastic bottles will be banned inside the stadiums at the latest by july 1st 2022the government took the measures after consulting all those involved in fighting violence in football stadiums adding it would also enhance video surveillance systems