Lille are experiencing one of the worst seasons in their history and it appears that Saturday night's 1-1 draw with Montpellier was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Some of the fans who swarmed onto the pitch managed to shout insults and even aim kicks at players, including Nicolas Pepe, the Ivory Coast forward whose goal had earned Lille a draw in the game at the Stade Pierre-Mauroy.
President Gerard Lopez, the Luxembourg-born businessman who bought the club last year, was in the stands and television cameras caught him shaking his head in disbelief at the scenes that marred the end of the game.
The club are 19th in La Liga and facing almost certain relegation to the French second tier having begun the season with aspirations of qualifying for the Champions League.
Meanwhile, the club's financial situation was deemed so unhealthy that French football authorities recently inflicted a transfer embargo.
Lille won the double in 2010-11 but their fall since then has been almost a rapid as their rise to the top in the first place.
10 March 2018