Articles tagged with "sidney-govou"
Lyon: Hospital Ward Edition
By Inara | October 30th, 2008Just who isn't injured? Of the ten players out, seven of them are starting players. Defensively, Lyon are once again in a crisis. They are ...
Lyon vs. Le Havre AC
By John | September 19th, 2008Ahhh, hopefully we can have a slight respite from the recent Franco-Italian war that has errupted in our comments section of the post-Lyon-Fiorentina CL ...
Transfer Rumors and Tidbits
By John | July 21st, 2008Although we've all been waiting for the eventual signing of The Rock, John Mensah -which should happen today, Monday- there are other smaller happenings in ...
Mini-Transfer Update
By John | July 9th, 2008Nothing major to report on the transfer front. Most of the info from Inara's last transfer post is still up to date. Here's the latest: ...
Latest on the Transfer Front: MEGA Post
By Inara | June 24th, 2008The latest news from this week...Due to the amount of material covered, I didn't post links to the original sources like I normally do, but ...
Euro 2008 Disaster
By Inara | June 20th, 2008I've totally been avoiding writing about this because part of me still believes that it's only a nightmare...But man, out of the eleven OL players ...
Official: Miralem Pjanic Signs + Other Transfer News
By Inara | June 6th, 2008This morning, Lyon finally clinched the signature of Miralem Pjanic, who is the hottest talent in France not born in 1987. Lyon have been negotiating ...
Transfer Rumours - IN
By b-man | June 6th, 2008Shanun Wright-Phillips Chelsea winger SWP has been linked with the club recently. He is similar to Jermain Defoe when he was at Spurs in the sense ...
Rant of the Day: Lyon Are...Shittastic!
By Inara | April 16th, 2008Remember the game that Lyon barely won against Valenciennes? Well, two weeks and three games later, Lyon prove that they can play even more fantastically ...
MORE Injuries, Plus Marseille Want Hatem Ben Arfa (Hahaha)
By Inara | April 8th, 2008This has got to be the worst year for Lyon in terms of injuries. Important players keep dropping like flies, right when things are getting ...
The 20 Highest Paid Players in France - Lyon Once Again Dominate
By Inara | April 8th, 2008This year, 13 of the 20 highest paid footballers in Ligue 1 are from Lyon. Last year, there were only 11. Which is strange because ...
Bodmer Receives First NT Call Up!!!!!!!!!
By Inara | March 20th, 2008The sense of justice in this world has prevailed. Mathieu Bodmer, one of the best young French midfielders out there, has finally received what he ...
Top 50 Football Player Salaries in the World
By Inara | February 27th, 2008Today, a Portuguese financial website published the top 50 highest earning footballers in the world. I don't know whether to be reassured or disappointed that ...
Rangers 0 - 3 Lyon: Ibrox Conquered
By Inara | December 12th, 2007Against all odds, OL booked their place in the last 16 of the Champions League. After losing their first two games in a disastrous start, ...
Grass Roots Recruiting
By Inara | November 30th, 2007By mid-November, transfer speculation is normally furious as newspapers wonder who will be entering and exiting the Stade de Gerland during the winter mercato. Last ...
How Come I Didn't Know That Cris Has a Twin?
By Inara | November 14th, 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 ...
Milan Baros Told To Get Married As International Duty Beckons
By Inara | November 9th, 2007~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ According to Karel Bruckner, the coach of the Czech Republic NT, all the trouble Milan Baros has been getting into recently (which include getting into ...
Samir Nasri back on French National Team...
By Magnusson | November 8th, 2007Raymond Domenech gave his list of players that will play against Morocco and Ukraine a little later this month. The good news for Marseille is ...
Goal of the Week: Round 13
By Sam | November 5th, 2007What's that you say? You want goals? Well have I got a proposition for you! Watch these. You, the readers, have voted Rodrigo's goal the ...
Lyon Are Back in Business
By Inara | November 3rd, 2007Lyon snatched their fifth straight league win (now undefeated in 10 league matches) to retain a four point lead on second placed Nancy. Juninho scored ...
Pauleta 2 - 3 Lyon. Boring? I don't think so.
By Inara | October 29th, 2007Today's game between French heavyweights PSG and Lyon was a slap in the face of L1's goal drought. Ninety minutes of goals, near misses, off ...
More Updates
By Inara | October 17th, 2007Now that international break is over, the players will be returning tomorrow to resume Ligue 1 doldrums. Here's what's been happening with Les Gones... ~~~~~~~~ Lyon players ...
Assorted News Bits
By Inara | October 10th, 2007~~~~~~~~ I take back what I said about the away kits. The gold kit is fast becoming a favorite, whether paired with red or dark blue ...
Goal of the Week: Round 9
By Sam | September 26th, 2007With the curtain closing on last week's round in which Juninho emerged the winner, it is with even more pleasure that I bring you this ...
It's Getting a Little Hot Under the Collar
By Inara | September 23rd, 2007Surprisingly - and unfortunately - Lyon were held to a 1-1 draw by Lille - at home. I expected the scoreline to be in Lyon's ...
OL Toulousified: Elmander 1 - Lyon 0
By Inara | August 12th, 2007Saturday's game was all about the Swedes. Johan Elmander has once again proved to be Lyon's undoing, but this time he had help from fellow ...
Rebuilding Lyon's Formula 1 Car: 2007-2008 Season Preview
By Inara | August 3rd, 2007One of Jean-Michel Aulas's favorite analogies is comparing Lyon to a Formula 1 car, one that is capable of shifting gears to cope with all ...
Sidney Govou is Not an Alcoholic (and other assorted quotes from this month)
By Inara | July 29th, 2007~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Several people have told me [Gerard Houllier] had spoken ill of me to foreign clubs, that I liked to party and was an alcoholic." - ...
The Milan Baros Conspiracy
By Inara | July 28th, 2007When will the football gods lay off? It's not even that Milan Baros goes looking for bad luck. Misfortune just finds him. Who else out ...
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