Articles tagged with "france-ligue-1"
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, ...
Ligue 2: We're halfway through
By Sam | December 10th, 2006If anyone of you can honestly tell me that you can name a Ligue 2 club without looking below, give yourself a pat on the ...
Matchday 17 - Djibril is back, Paris isn't
By Sam | December 10th, 2006Saturday was a big night at Stade Vélodrome in Marseille, for many reasons. The home leg against Monaco has long been a feisty tradition in ...
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 ...
Matchday 16 - Lyon roars still
By Sam | December 3rd, 2006Le Mans hosted Lyon in the inaugral match of the weekend, and wouldn't you know it, Lyon walked away with a yawn-tastic 1-0 win. Le ...
Yep
By Sam | November 30th, 2006I can't really give a title to this, it'll just be a rag-tag string of transfer rumours and UEFA Cup scores from the last few ...
Highlights from Matchday 15
By Sam | November 27th, 2006Troyes 1-1 Marseille Bordeaux 1-0 Saint-Étienne (Long video) Lille 1-1 Monaco Lorient 1-3 Sochaux Nice 2-2 Sedan Le Mans 1-1 Lens
Matchday 15 - Whoa, whoa, status quo
By Sam | November 27th, 2006Not a terribly exciting and goal-filled week (I'm noticing a pattern here), Matchday 15 provided us with the anticipation of next week (I'll get to ...
Lyon would like you to shut up
By Sam | November 27th, 2006Jean-Michel Aulas, president of Olympique Lyonnais, would like you to know that David Trezeguet, Nicolas Anelka or Frédéric Piquionne will not be signing with Lyon. ...
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 ...
The daily grind
By Sam | November 20th, 2006With the winter transfer window fast approaching, France's big guns are looking to eastern Europe for young players to recruit and develop. Case in point in ...
Matchday 14 - Lyon avoid embarassment
By Sam | November 19th, 2006Not particularly high-scoring or exciting, Matchday 14 provided some interesting results that made the top 10 that much more close. Marseille FINALLY won after five ...
Ribéry ain't going nowhere
By Sam | November 17th, 2006After much speculation and media-influenced babbling, the newly sidelined Franck Ribéry has once again written in stone that he will stay in Marseille, at least ...
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 ...
Conceding seventy penalties per game will usually get you run out of town
By Sam | November 16th, 2006Mario "Jesus" Yepes, Paris SG's colossal full-back could be going the way of the Dhorasoo. Since the start of the season, Yepes has picked up ...
Cissé back soon
By Sam | November 15th, 2006Marseille's medical crew and the hospital where Djibril Cissé was operated have scheduled the Shaquille O'Neal of football's return for early December. He's been training ...
Goal of the Week
By Sam | November 14th, 2006This is the best video I could find, sorry for the baggage, but the second goal by Elmander was the chosen one, I would've hoped ...
Marseille prepares city-wide suicide-fest
By Sam | November 14th, 2006If not something worse. OM's favourite butt-ugly midget, Franck Ribéry, while training with Les Bleus leading up to Wednesday's France-Greece, came down with a nasty ...
Maybe coming, maybe going
By Sam | November 13th, 2006Two notably talented young bucks announced either their desire to be exported or to be imported. No, it's not Ribéry. Amazingly, Messi hasn't unveiled plans ...
Matchday 13 - Can you say "no surprises"?
By Sam | November 12th, 2006My goodness, what are Marseille up to? Five losses in a row is bad for a team at the bottom of the table, so what ...
All of a sudden, Higuain appears
By Sam | November 9th, 2006How about that young buck Gonzalo Higuain? Not one month ago, Bob talked about him on the site, then the french rumor sites get in ...
Rennes v. Lyon - Yay!
By Sam | November 7th, 2006It had to happen, and it did. Here are the highlights.
Matchday 12 - The lion has fallen! Temporarily!
By Sam | November 5th, 2006Now here is a day out of the ordinary. Lyon was handed there first loss, Marseille buried their head a bit more into the sand, ...
Cissé to Marseille for 4 years?
By Sam | November 1st, 2006French international striker Djibril Cissé, on loan to Olympique de Marseille from Liverpool for the remainder of the year, could be dealt to the french ...
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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