Le Bris said: “We understand the rule and I think Paul Tierney is a great referee but the execution of the rule is very hard to digest because I don’t think it is intentional and violent conduct.
“We don’t want to be controversial, we are here to help the game, many people are watching the Premier League and we want to be clean in our behaviours, but football is football. It is a duel in the air and with a tall striker [who weighs] 100kg more or less, Ballard is massive as well, so the ball in the air 20 times in a game, many things can happen.
“If the rule is the rule, when you have a striker with long hair, you will have problems because you can’t defend. It was more or less the case. They executed the rule but it’s a bit hard to digest.”
“First of all, we’ll see who is the striker. If he has long hair, we have a problem. If they play long, be careful and we’ll see.
“Sometimes a handball is the same, it’s probably a grey area and with this rule, we are at that stage where you have to manage the rule to make it clean for different situations.”