Articles tagged with "supporters"
Happy Anniversary to Our Blog!!
By Inara | April 4th, 2008It's the Lyon Offside's one year anniversary! It was on April 4th, 2007 when I published my introductory post, "Lyon Re-Cap." Wow, so much has happened ...
Just How Full Are Premier League Stadiums?
By Daryl | March 27th, 2008Over at EPL Talk, they've been calculating attendances in the 2007/8 Premier League so far, and published this list ranking each club's average attendance 1 ...
How to Support Espanyol From Beyond the Grave
By Daryl | March 6th, 2008Being a lifelong fan of a club used to be pretty much the ultimate. You go the games your whole life, even if your team ...
Lille-Lyon Will Shatter Ligue 1 Attendence Records
By Inara | February 28th, 2008This Saturday, the Stade de France will be celebrating their 10 year anniversary, as well as France's 1998 World Cup victory. In conjunction with the ...
Time to Hate St. Etienne Again (St. Etienne vs. Lyon)
By Inara | January 26th, 2008It's one of my favorite times of the year as a football fan. Tomorrow, ...
The Screw-Up Heard Around The World
By Sam | December 4th, 2007It's the 76th minute. You're at home. You're in the relegation zone. In front of supporters who boycotted the first fifteen minutes of the match ...
Racism in the Stands Still Alive and Well, League Doesn't Really Care
By Sam | September 21st, 2007First off, here's a little-known fact for the lot of you. You're all probably familiar with Pascal Chimbonda, the novelty of France's World Cup squad ...
Please take your seat.
By Lucas | September 18th, 2007Sunderland supporters are among the best traveling fans in England. They routinely take contingents of several thousand to matches as far away as Plymouth ...
The Fans: Epilogue
By Inara | September 16th, 2007Now that the league is starting up again, it's time to end Fan Week. I've had a great time learning about you guys, either through ...
The Fans: A Roma Fan Tells It Straight
By Inara | September 14th, 2007The last interview features one of my favorite bloggers, Chris, who runs the excellent Roma Offside. Many of you know him through his blog or ...
The Fans: An MLS Fan Has His Say
By Inara | September 12th, 2007Eurosnobs tend not to appreciate football outside the Old Continent, especially when it's called soccer. Still, those of us who sit down to watch American ...
The Fans: Not a Fan
By Inara | September 11th, 2007Sorry for the lack of posting, but in between a hectic week and manning the main Offside blog yesterday, I've been neglecting this blog. But ...
The Fans: Loving Lyon From VERY Far Away
By Inara | September 11th, 2007My next victim interviewee is Scott. He grew up in Lyon and witnessed Lyon's rise from Ligue 2 to where they are today. However, Scott ...
The Fans: An American Convert
By Inara | September 8th, 2007The next few posts in this series will be devoted to interviews I conducted of a few fans. Each of them are different and offer ...
The Fans: The Ultras
By Inara | September 7th, 2007In today's post of getting to know the fans, we'll learn about the various Lyon ultras. Ultras refer to a club's supporter groups, each of which ...
The Fans: Why do you like Lyon?
By Inara | September 5th, 2007Since it's international week, and since the only thing happening at the Gerland right now is the Rugby World Cup, I'm taking a break from ...
Tribute to the Toronto FC Supporters Groups
By Sam | August 6th, 2007As if we really needed more evidence, we got it. After yesterday's match against LA, it's become even clearer. Toronto FC has the best supporters in ...
Toronto FC Fans: We Are Just That Hardcore
By Sam | May 18th, 2007After three games at BMO, four if you count the Canadian U-20s, a senior official for the club has said that emergency repairs will be ...
Open Thread: Your Thoughts On The First Four Games
By Sam | April 29th, 2007Let's start the debate and discussions to end all debate and discussions. Quite simply, I want to know what you think about the team, the coach, ...
TFC 0 Kansas City 1: So Close, So Very Very Close
By Sam | April 28th, 2007Scorers: KC- Johnson 81' Analysis: Argh, argh and argh again. Four in a row. This one, however, hurts. We played well. Did you see that first half? ...
Week 4: Kansas City @ TFC preview
By Sam | April 26th, 2007Saturday, April 28. BMO Field, Toronto, Ontario. In a nutshell: It's the home opener! What's more, after almost five hours of not scoring, the hometown fans ...
Djibril Cissé: My mother loves me, so shut up
By Sam | April 11th, 2007As the common phrase goes, only two things in this world are certain: death and taxes. The way I see it, two things in this ...
T-5 Days: Meet the stadium
By Sam | April 2nd, 2007Going into the home stretch before the season final-fricking-ly starts on April 7, I’ll be providing a daily look at what the team is looking ...
T-6 Days: Meet the supporters
By Sam | April 1st, 2007Going into the home stretch before the season final-fricking-ly starts on April 7, I’ll be providing a daily look at what the team is looking ...
No, we've never seen them play. So what?
By Sam | February 8th, 2007You gotta love the dedication of Toronto FC's supporters. The team has been holding closed-off training sessions for one week, but they know loyalty. Even ...
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