Olof Mellberg courted, Lyon seducing Mamadou Niang...

The phone between Marseille and Turin has been working non stop ever since Didier Deschamps took office. After having downplayed very quickly all the rumors ...

Mathieu Valbuena leaving and all other transfer rumors...

Mathieu Valbuena, one of Erik Gerets' favorite players was definitely one of the few players who were perceived as potential transferable players once new manager ...

France Has A New King: Football Club des Girondins de Bordeaux.

Lyon lost their kung-fu grip on the Ligue 1 trophy some ways back and a new champion was always inevitable, but that doesn't make it ...

Winning & Losing A Title In The Boardroom.

I don't spend a great deal of time contemplating the French domestic scene, yet Monday morning I took a look at the table and was ...

Say Hello to the new Coach...

Marseille keeps the Ligue 1 top spot...

After what could only be described as one of the wrst first halves of the season, Marseille managed to come back in the second half ...

Friday Evening News...

Djibril Cissé might not stay at Sunderland. Djibril Cissé who has now openly said in the british press that he wouldn't be back in France and ...

Monaco 0-1 Marseille, we get back on the podium

Let's be clear and perfectly honest, everything we have done in order to beat Bordeaux last week would have been useless had we lost against ...

Black History Month: Marius Trésor

It has dawned on me a few nights ago (well I was actually told) that it was Black History Month (whatever *that* is) so I’ll ...

Marseille stays in the Race....

Before the Sunday game, not many were betting on Marseille to beat Bordeaux and stay relevant in the chase of Lyon. Let's face it, we ...

Sunday's Junk Pile: Bordeaux's Sailor Boys

Little tidbits that made me smile this week but weren't worth a whole post: First, I just can't look at Bordeaux's kits this year without thinking ...

PSG Fans Express Their Displeasure With Ownership

(Before I talk about this picture, take a look. Tell me if you see any females. I think I see maybe one. ...

The Commanderie heats up as we prepare to meet Lyon...

In an electric context surrounding the team ever since our Owner Robert Louis-Dreyfus, b.k.a SpongeBob, came out in the press to put the pressure on ...

SpongeBob is no more!!!

Our owner, billionaire Robert Louis-Dreyfus, a.k.a. Spongebob doesn't grant many interviews. But when he does, he rarely beats around the bush and goes straight to ...

Gerets' killer? Brandao

Out of the long list of strikers we could have bought, Gerets, Anigo and Diouf decided on brandao after a whole week of negociations ...

Bordeaux Come From Three Goals Down to Win 4-3

The headline says it all. Incredible comeback from Bordeaux, who refused to recognize "3-0 down after 50 minutes" as the inevitable defeat that it should ...

Hunting Season open...

The only thing we can get out of the snoozefest that was this Sunday's game is that France now has a championship that it can ...

Yoann Gourcuff Strips to his Bikini Undies. The Video.

[via ONTD] This is one of those posts that's going to make Chris and Daryl wake up and say, "Oh, dear Lord, what has she done ...

Marseille wins back the #2 spot, loses Mamadou Niang...

After quite an eventful week where our fan Santos Mierrasierra, arrested in madrid on some bogus hooliganism charges and sentenced to 3 and a 1/2 ...

Mandanda's Hologram.

Jan from the Bundesliga Offside sent me a link to this video of Steve Mandanda at one of the Adidas stores in Marseille. This is ...

Uncomprehensible!

We dropped the ball big time last night. I still don't understand what happened. It's impossible to wrap my head around it. We started the ...

"How Not To Handle a Backpass," by Rémy Vercoutre

Let's say you're a backup goalkeeper looking to prove your value to the team. You get your chance in a Cup game where your ...

The French Act Like Grownups, Avoid Footy Strike

French footy fans, rejoice. There will be games this weekend. A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about the probability that a strike ...

Battle of the Acronyms as France Prepares for a Strike

Striking is as French as baguettes, and a source of much French angst and humor. When our readers were chatting recently on the France ...

Pascal Feindouno: Mercenary on a Mission

Pascal, current winger/forward for St. Etienne and one of their better players, is essentially holding his own club ransom. With the Asian transfer window still ...

The European Weekend

After kicking off the Champions League & UEFA Cup, Europe goes back home and hasn't left us wanting, giving us some very big and very ...

Renato Civelli nearly drowned...

Renato Civelli (24) was not at practice on Friday morning. But he had on hell of an excuse. On thursday while he was out fishing ...

Heads held high...

I like to watch our games once they're over. I usually watch them again when I want to review the performances just because sometimes I ...

Here we go again...

The first thing that came to mind when the information came down that we would be facing Liverpool was disappointment at first since we already ...

How to break a thirty-year curse...

It's been thirty one years since the last time we won against Bordeaux. The 1977-1978 season to be exact and since then we lost 17 ...