Articles tagged with "european-competition"
France in the Champs League: Lyon falls flat and goes out
By Sam | March 6th, 2007Favourite Barcelona loses to Liverpool, favourite Inter loses to Valencia, and, argh, favourite Lyon loses to AS Roma. Not in style, mind you. I was ...
I Efa, Uefa, We all Efa Cup: Paris and Lens are in like Flynn
By Sam | February 22nd, 2007In the end, two of four French clubs have progressed to the round of 16 of the UEFA Cup. Not bad, considering that some of ...
France in the Champs League: Lyon and Roma can't muster nuthin' but cards
By Sam | February 21st, 2007Nothing doing in Olympique Lyonnais' first leg of the round of 16. In a packed Stadio Olimpico in Rome this Wednesday, it was not Juninho ...
France in the Champs League: Sneaky Giggs punches Lille right in the solar plexus
By Sam | February 20th, 2007Man, it would seem that Lille isn't a big fan of the 83rd minute. After seeing that fateful minute spell the beginning of the end ...
France in the Champs League: What awaits in the first leg?
By Sam | February 17th, 2007The round of 16 of the UEFA Champions League is fast approaching, and with the absence of any upsets in the group stage, all matchups ...
UEFA Cup: Paris seems to pick and choose when to win, but they do it well
By Sam | February 16th, 2007First of all, I'd like to apologize for my recent impromptu vanishing act, this computer isn't one of them hot high-tech ones, and it suddenly ...
Dubai Cup: Be ashamed, be very ashamed
By Sam | January 10th, 2007I don't think the majority of you will have heard of the Mohamed bin Rashid International Football Championship, aka Dubai Cup. What it consists of ...
Shut up, Lille isn't a free ticket to the quarters
By Sam | December 16th, 2006Lille isn't a bad team! Grr! They beat Manchester United! They have more than enough talent to compete with anyone! Just watch! That is all.
Man U and Roma? Oh, it's on
By Sam | December 16th, 2006I was hoping for something along the lines of Lyon-Barca or Lyon-Inter, but I got AS Roma instead. Not bad. I wanted Manchester United, and ...
Paris-SG turns it on, finally, and what's this about Barthez?
By Sam | December 13th, 2006If you're going to win a game after a long and painful slump, you might as well make it a 4-0 win at home against ...
Paris wants you as a fan, Lyon wants you as an attacker
By Sam | December 11th, 2006The two richest clubs in the country are in two very different pickles lately. One is suffering a horrible season, is having fatal hooligan problems, ...
Take that, Milan, even though you don't care!
By Sam | December 6th, 2006Lille went to San Siro looking for a win and nothing else. They got nothing else. They played a great game, scoring via Peter Odemwingie ...
France in the Champs League
By Sam | December 4th, 2006The first round of the greatest club competition in the world wraps up its 2006 edition this week, with three French clubs involved. Lyon, top ...
Depressingly frustrating and tragic
By Sam | November 24th, 2006This is just what Paris Saint-Germain needed at this time. Not only are they currently on a bad streak both on the pitch and in ...
Paris Saint-Germain: Frustration, Confusion and A Horrible Coach
By Sam | November 23rd, 2006Those are the three things going on these days in the French capital. The second-richest club in the country, who have a very decent array ...
France in the Champs League - Meh, I guess
By Sam | November 22nd, 2006Some not bad results, but we could've done better... REAL MADRID 2-2 LYON What a game! Lyon guarantees the first place in the group after a wild ...
France in the Champs League
By Sam | November 20th, 2006LYON vs. MADRID! Sounds delicious, doesn't it? Two of the best in the world going head-to-head in one of the biggest stadiums in the world, in ...
They've been waiting for this since I was about two years old
By Sam | November 16th, 2006Do the names "Bernard Tapie" or "Valenciennes Football Club" ring a bell? Probably not. Does the sentence "Marseille won the Champions League in 1993, only ...
More of the same
By Sam | November 1st, 2006Hats off to AEK Athens and Liverpool. Hats on (I guess) to Bordeaux and Lille. And our hats were already clear off as to Lyon, ...
France in the Champs League
By Sam | October 30th, 2006France's rich history of Champions League play, which includes one ill-gotten win, a runner-up position in the inaugral season and a penalty shoot-out loss in ...
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