Articles tagged with "raymond domenech"
Phenoms Taking Their Names Off The Market
By chris | May 9th, 2008It's just the cool thing to do, apparently. Two of the biggest names in world football 25 and under in Samir Nasri and Klaas-Jan Huntelaar were supposed to go up for auction this summer, with The Artist Formerly Knows As G14 with be clamoring to ...
Weekly Who Will Win Euro 2008 Poll
By Daryl | May 3rd, 2008We're running a weekly poll over at the Euro 2008 Blog, to find which team readers think will win the tournament this summer. Each week, we'll close the old poll and start a new one. The big idea is to see if and how opinion changes as news about ...
Raymond Was Young Once...
By Inara | April 21st, 2008I admit that I have a rather unhealthy obsession with Raymond Domenech. Even if his decision making is suspect, his tact is nonexistent, and his best quality is his amazing ability to piss people off, I just can't help liking him. Maybe it's because ...
Domenech Returning to Lyon? WHAT?
By Inara | March 28th, 2008Let's get something straight. Almost everyone hates Raymond Domenech. He says outrageous things, pisses off players and managers alike with his antics, and has so many enemies that he ought to look into hiring a bodyguard. But dammit, I like the guy. ...
Episode 16: International Friendly Day
By Ian Rose | March 26th, 2008It sounds like a rather ridiculous holiday, like Love Day from the Simpsons, but no, Wednesday is going to be jam-packed with international football, and this week on the pod, we take a little break from the club football scene to take a look at some ...
Loïc Rémy in blue
By Jay | March 25th, 2008On loan from Lyon, young rising star Loic Remy has gotten the call from national coach Raymond Domenech of France. Following an injury to Marseille midfielder Mathieu Valbuena, coach Domonech has decided to go with the red hot Lens forward. ...
Poll: Right Backs Playing Musical Chairs
By Inara | February 27th, 2008If you're like me, you're undecided about who our starting right back should be. We have two good ones in Anthony Réveillère and François Clerc. They aren't spectacular by any means, but they are solid and don't often disappoint. Unlike all other p
Euro 2008, The case for Steve Mandanda...
By Magnusson | December 6th, 2007Incredible, magnificent, brilliant, glorious, splendid, there has been a lack of superlatives lately to qualify the very impressive outings of young Steve Mandanda as our goalkeeper. There has been unanimous praise from all over the country and might I sa
A Dose of Jean-Michel Aulas
By Inara | November 19th, 2007On Milan Baros saying that he will explore other options this January: "Milan must explain himself. His words are faster than his thoughts. A lot like his car. The transfer rumors are already starting up, but we are not sellers. The only person who de
How Come I Didn't Know That Cris Has a Twin?
By Inara | November 15th, 2007I realize that I can't expect to know everything about my beloved Lyon players (though it's not for a lack of trying). But you would think that Cris having a twin would be interesting enough news to catch the radar of an avid fan. I mean, I once spent two
David Trezeguet Says Something Stupid (Again)
By Inara | October 5th, 2007You would have to be blind, deaf, and dumb not to realize that David Trezeguet is angry this morning. He's mad not just because he wasn't selected to play in France's upcoming Euro qualifiers, but also because his place on the squad was usurped by 19
The Daily-Or-So News Dispatch (07.09.19)
By Sam | September 20th, 2007The big news on the French football front today was of course Lyon's slap-in-the-face trip to Barcelona, but let's not forget the other goings-on around the league, with other clubs gearing up for their UEFA Cup matches tomorrow, Ligue 2's Week 7, and wha
The Traveling Celts: A Great Week
By JT | September 13th, 2007Its been over twenty four hours since Scotland's fantastic 1-0 win in Paris over France, so I find it positively incredible that we haven't heard from Ian at the Scotland Offside yet. It must mean he's having one hell of a good time, or recovering from o
Moussilou is #21, national team announced...
By Magnusson | August 16th, 2007In other news, Djibril Cissé, Gaël Givet and Samir Nasri have been called up for the french national team's next two matches.
Coupet Suffers "Mysterious" Injury...Again
By Inara | June 4th, 2007A day after the France - Ukraine match, reports circulated that Gregory Coupet had to drop out of the squad due to an "unspecified" injury. He'll also miss the match against Georgia on Wednesday. What this means is that Coupet is starting his holiday
Wiltord-Lyon, Le Divorce
By Inara | May 13th, 2007I've been waiting awhile to talk about this because I still don't know what exactly is going on between Sylvain Wiltord and Lyon. Everything was fine until a few weeks ago, when Wiltord was supposedly considering a summer move to PSG. It had a lot of
The Attackers Curse
By Inara | May 7th, 2007I was never one to believe in curses, but after watching the injuries pile up by the day, I'm convinced that someone has a voodoo doll collection of the entire Lyon team, and during each match, pokes the hell out of them. So far this season, Lyon have
OMG RAY! or, Lyon and Raymond Domenech are having an affair
By Inara | April 26th, 2007Instead of harping about how awful Lyon has been lately, today I'm going to take a trip back in time to when Lyon was still a backwater provincial club with a budget of about five dollars (mind you, this was only 20 years ago). Lyon's first silverwar
Why Henry and We Needed a Rest
By Trent | November 19th, 2006We here at the Arsenal Offside understand how grueling the Premiership / International / Champions League / FA Cup/ Carling Cup / Being Fabulously Wealthy grind can be. Sometimes it's all we can do to sit down and type out four or five forgettable senten
Jose Mourinho: Modern Day Abolitionist
By Bob | August 29th, 2006Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho has almost done the impossible. He has almost made us sympathetic towards France coach Raymond Domenech. Almost. Mourinho has snuck his nose into the dispute between his midfielder Claude Makelele and the coach who led Fra
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