Articles tagged with "french-football"
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 ...
Okay, but still
By Sam | October 30th, 2006I recently ranted against the stupid stadium regulations as to "pyrotechnic devices" and how they in no way intice supporters to cut back, but an ...
There's the fascist guy, then there's him
By Sam | October 29th, 2006The surname Le Pen is not so popular amongst non-idiotic french people. Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the Front National, aka the Fascist People's front, ...
Matchday 11 - Home advantage the real story
By Sam | October 29th, 2006Lens 1-0 Auxerre kicked off the day, and Lens pleased their fans by offing rivals AJA thanks to a fine goal by Demont on 62 ...
A bit too much justice
By Sam | October 26th, 2006The Ligue de Football Professionel has never had a reputation of being generous. Apart from the fact that they are all die-hard Lyon fans, they ...
Sam
By Sam | October 26th, 2006Sam is the younger one here on The Offside, a mere 16 years of age and residing in Edmonton. Outside of France, he supports Tottenham ...
Round of 16 - League Cup
By Sam | October 25th, 2006We're down to eight teams in the cup that no one cares about. Not too many surprises, but it wouldn't be a cup day without ...
Goal of the Week
By Sam | October 24th, 2006Toulouse's Brian Bergougnoux's bullet strike against Monaco earned him goal of the week honours.
Monaco fire up the Baloney
By Sam | October 23rd, 2006Laszlo Bölöni, that is. AS Monaco's Romanian bench boss was shown the door, a mere 10 league games after being welcomed so nicely after Didier ...
Hi, I'm Sam, Lyon wins, blah blah blah
By Sam | October 23rd, 2006Hi offsideateers, welcome to my branch of the wonderful website that is The Offside. The French Ligue 1, otherwise known as the race to second ...
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