Sports and Politics..I guess they Mix in France

OM-PSG on the Assembly Benches "Yah!  Always the same ones who are on the bench!" "On my mother, I am vexed!" Coming from America, I find it surprising ...

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 ...

Domenech calls Carrasso up...

In some kind of twist this morning, Raymond Domenech called our ex-goalkeeper and new Toulouse wall, Cedric carasso to the National Team. I couldn't be ...

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 ...

France's new BOSS, Steve Mandanda...

Steve Mandanda is good. Exceptionnaly so. We knew that. But if last season's performances and his participation to the Euros were an evidence, the fact ...

Saturday morning MEGA update...

I promised myself I wouldn't make this a habit but a lot happened this week IRL (In Real Life for all you World of Warcraft ...

Raymond Domenech stays on...

This just in, Raymond Domenech will continue to be the French National Team manager. It seemed obvious when you saw the declarations these past few ...

Pape Diouf: "They hate each other? It's hardly news..."

I was watching last night's 100% Euro with Pape Diouf as a guest - Sidebar, for anyone wondering, Estelle still hasn't talked about the proposal. ...

Three Marseillais in Raymond Domenech's 30...

Three of our players made the cut in Raymond Domenech's list of 30 (That's the first surprise, not 29, 30). Samir Nasri, Djibril Cissé and ...

Valbuena and four others called up...

After the humiliations of the past week, a few Marseillais received some good news this afternoon. Steve Mandanda, Gaël Givet, Samir Nasri, Mathieu Valbuena ...

Franck Ribery, French Player of the Year...

Two weeks after the Ballon d'Or that went to Kakà, France Football gives a trophy to the French Player of the Year. And after ...

Euro 2008, The case for Steve Mandanda...

Incredible, magnificent, brilliant, glorious, splendid, there has been a lack of superlatives lately to qualify the very impressive outings of young Steve Mandanda as our ...

Nasri & Cissé model the new Blue ...

Djibril Cissé wants you to leave him alone...

Djibril Cissé insisted on being the one player to answer questions on friday morning even though the club had conveniently scheduled him for late december, ...

There were two Olympiques...

What a game! Seriously one of the best games yet this year. I don't care that we won and that we could've scored more. Lyon ...

There can only be one Olympique...

Great! Just what we needed! The heavyweight of the Ligue1 if ever there was one. L'Olympique Lyonnais will be receiving L'Olympique de Marseille in what ...

Samir Nasri back on French National Team...

Raymond Domenech gave his list of players that will play against Morocco and Ukraine a little later this month. The good news for Marseille is ...

Raymond Domenech announces A', we are confused...

Raymond Domenech announced the sixteen players playing for the French Natrional A' team tonight at 7PM against Slovakia A' in Senec, and there are some ...