Articles tagged with "french-football"
Marseille-Liverpool: Aw Hell
By Sam | December 11th, 2007So! The first two matches of your Champions League campaign can only carry you so far, as we learned today. Four-nil at home. Unreal. A goal ...
Matchday 17: PSG Good, Lyon Bad
By Sam | December 10th, 2007Well, it wasn't at home, and death threats are perhaps still in circulation, but come on- do a jig, PSG are no longer part of ...
Your Guide to Ligue 1 Kits This Year (3/4)
By Sam | December 8th, 2007Fear not, readers, I'm still here and I haven't forgotten to finish up my exposé of every shirt in the league this season. Here are ...
Wanna Know More About France's Most Futile and Made-Fun of Players?
By Sam | December 6th, 2007I'll bet you do. One of my favourite websites, Les Cahiers du Football, presents each year, to the most underachieveing/foolish/media-blasted/you get the idea Ligue 1 ...
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 ...
Goal Of The Week: Round 16
By Sam | December 4th, 2007Twenty-eight goals to choose from, and but three chosen. Pity, pity. But that's the way it is here for the Goal of the Week, and ...
Matchday 16: Wait for it... Wait for it... Bam! Goals!
By Sam | December 3rd, 2007Let's just say Canal+ picked the right three matches to be shown on TV on Sunday. In those three, which were Valenciennes-Rennes, Bordeaux-Toulouse and Lyon-Strasbourg, ...
"Le point sur" Lyon and Marseille's Chances in the Champions League
By Sam | December 1st, 2007After the results were final in Matchday 5, Lyon knew their hopes of going through to the knockout stages of the Champions League, which they ...
OGC Nice's New Third Kit: O The Horror
By Sam | December 1st, 2007Camo? Camo??? I may have thought this looked cool back in elementary school, but since I'm quite past that, this shirt is just horrible. Sorry for the absence ...
Your Guide to Ligue 1 Kits This Year (2/4)
By Sam | November 27th, 2007More kits! Get'em while they're hot! Here's the second installment of the Ligue 1 top show. LILLE: Think Auxerre, but red. Again, they're simple and solid, ...
Your Guide to Ligue 1 Kits This Year (1/4)
By Sam | November 26th, 2007It's every football fan's soft spot: Shirts. Everyone loves discussing new shirts, sponsors, colour schemes, and so forth. And just because I love you all, ...
Goal of the Week: Round 15
By Sam | November 25th, 2007Never mind the Bollocks, here's the Goal of the Week! After Aruna Dindane won the last edition with his improbable chip, I've got a fresh ...
Matchday 15: LIVEBLOG
By Sam | November 24th, 200722:00 - There it is. Final scores are as follows: CAEN 5-0 BORDEAUX LENS 1-1 LORIENT MARSEILLE 3-1 METZ NANCY 2-0 LILLE SAINT-ÉTIENNE 1-0 SOCHAUX STRASBOURG 0-0 VALENCIENNES TOULOUSE 0-0 MONACO RENNES 0-2 ...
Announcement: Ultimate LIVEBLOG of Death Coming Your Way
By Sam | November 23rd, 2007Oh, shyit: I'm going there. Join me tomorrow, here on the France Offside, for seven Ligue 1 matches at once narrated simultaneously with insight, stats, ...
Ligue 1 Coming to the Stade de France!
By Sam | November 23rd, 2007L'histoire s'apprête à être écrite, sort of. It was announced today by Lille OSC's official website that on the evening of 1 March 2008, Lille ...
The Daily-Or-So News Dispatch (2007.11.22)
By Sam | November 22nd, 2007Things are a bit slow club-wise during the international break (HAHAHAH ENGLAND SUCKS), so bear with me if the newsy bits are not all that ...
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 ...
Matchday 13: Lyon, Meet Driver's Seat
By Sam | November 5th, 2007Oh wait, you already know each other. For the past six years you say? Oh. Indeed all eyes were on Lyon this week as they ...
Samir Nasri Evokes the Apocalypse, "Could Leave Marseille"
By Sam | November 3rd, 2007Oui, c'est possible que je parte. Gah. In an interview with the unfortunately credible French sports newspaperL'Équipe, the 20-year old, who played his first full 90 today ...
League Cup: Business As Painfully Usual
By Sam | November 1st, 2007The Round of 16 of the Coupe de la Ligue rounded to a close today, with Le Mans beating Ligue 2 misfit Chamois Niortais. Here's ...
Absurdly Random Profile of the Week: Johan Elmander
By Sam | October 31st, 2007Name: Johan Elmander Date of birth: 27 May 1981 Place of birth: Alingsås, Sweden Current club: Toulouse FC Position: Striker Height: 188 cm Weight: 85 kg Shirt number: 9 Randomness of selection: I ...
It's Been a Year, Already? / Reader Feedback / Advertising!
By Sam | October 29th, 2007Oh my, I almost forgot! This week marks the one-year anniversary of my stay at the France Offside! It was on October 24, 2006 that ...
And the Award for Creepiest Promotional 2008 Calendar Goes To...
By Sam | October 29th, 2007Olympique de Marseille. Designer clothes and young children? You won't see that from Queen's Park Rangers!
Goal of the Week: Round 12
By Sam | October 28th, 2007Goal of the Week on the France Offside is back after the Matchday 11 hiatus, and do I have some swell goals to pick from ...
Matchday 12: Boring Draws, Nice Wins, And a Whole Lotta Bad Luck
By Sam | October 28th, 2007So there it is. Olympique Lyonnais are now more than one win's worth of points in front of their closest competitor. Can they be caught? Nancy ...
Absurdly Random Profile of the Week: Joseph-Désiré Job
By Sam | October 18th, 2007Name: Joseph-Désiré Job Date of birth: 1 December 1977 Current club: OGC Nice Position: Striker Height: 178 cm Weight: 70 kg Shirt number: 11 Randomness of selection: Looked at the time ...
Goal of the Week: Round 10
By Sam | October 8th, 2007We're back with le but de la semaine here on the France Offside, where you, the reader, get to pick which goal you think tops ...
Matchday 10: Lyon and Marseille Put their Ligue 1 Shorts on
By Sam | October 7th, 2007As opposed to their Champions League shorts. Yes, the reigning champions were back where they belonged, aka on the happy end of the scoreline. OM, ...
Peut-être! Allez! Oui! Égalisation! But! But! C'est fabuleux! Gignac surgit! Oui! Toulouse est qualifié!
By Sam | October 5th, 2007Sometimes words speak louder than actions.
Misson Somewhat Accomplished for UEFA Cupsters
By Sam | October 5th, 2007With one quarter of the Ligue 1 clubs competing in the first round of the UEFA Cup, whose second leg was disputed this week, you ...
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