Articles tagged with "karim-benzema"
It's Getting a Little Hot Under the Collar
By Inara | September 23rd, 2007Surprisingly - and unfortunately - Lyon were held to a 1-1 draw by Lille - at home. I expected the scoreline to be in Lyon's ...
Matchday 8: Raaaar, we is Lyon and we eat you alive.
By Sam | September 18th, 2007Karim Benzema destroys you. Don't deny it. Anyway, here are the recaps from this week. Sorry for the lateness of the post, I'm hella-busy these ...
The Kids Take Over: Metz 1 - 5 Lyon
By Inara | September 15th, 2007For those of you convinced that Lyon were spiraling to the depths of France's amateur divisions, I'm very happy to say that they proved again ...
Little Pieces of News
By Inara | September 15th, 2007Sorry for the deluge of posts, but now that international week is over, there is suddenly so much to write about. I'm also in a ...
OL Toulousified: Elmander 1 - Lyon 0
By Inara | August 12th, 2007Saturday's game was all about the Swedes. Johan Elmander has once again proved to be Lyon's undoing, but this time he had help from fellow ...
The Daily-Or-So News Dispatch (07.08.10)
By Sam | August 10th, 2007Climbing up the steep and periolous face of DND mountain, the adventurers finally arrived to the top to meet the Ligue 1 guru sitting peacefully ...
Benzema Extends Contract
By Inara | August 10th, 2007Karim Benzema has extended his contract with Lyon until June 30th, 2012. This is wonderful news for OL fans because he's seen as Lyon's long-awaited ...
Transfer Bullshit News
By Inara | August 6th, 2007
Despite the fact that Ligue 1 has already started, absurd rumors still continue to circulate around the Gerland. Most of them are unworthy to be ...
A Winning Start
By Inara | August 5th, 2007Lyon achieved a comfortable 2-0 victory over Auxerre in their first league game of the season (match pictures at the end of the post). For ...
Goal of the Week Competition: Round 1
By Sam | August 5th, 2007That's right, all you Offsiders, France Offside is having a Goal of the Week competition this season. I've selected three of what I think are ...
The Milan Baros Conspiracy
By Inara | July 28th, 2007When will the football gods lay off? It's not even that Milan Baros goes looking for bad luck. Misfortune just finds him. Who else out ...
Lyon Beats the other Lions to Become Champions of Champions (Yeah, I Know)
By Sam | July 28th, 2007Call me German, but I don't think that ball was over. Sure, you could see some green between the ball and the line, but that ...
LYON: Like You Need an Introduction
By Sam | July 23rd, 2007As the start of the season looms, it’s time for the France Offside to give you an in-depth look at each of the 20 teams ...
Lyon Take Care of J-Pulse. Next Up: Reading
By Inara | July 13th, 2007Lyon's first Peace Cup game was successful, with a final score of 2-0. It wasn't thrilling or impressive, but it got the job done and ...
What Will It Take For Lyon to Become a Big Club?
By Inara | June 25th, 2007An excellent article was published on Sportsvox which asked whether Lyon fulfilled the criteria of being a "big European club." It's in French, so I ...
Lyon Go to St. Tropez on Vacation
By Inara | May 22nd, 2007And no, their season is not yet over. They still have one game left to play this Saturday against Nantes. But since Lyon won the ...
Just Shut Up, Please
By Inara | May 16th, 2007As the transfer window approaches, Lyon is quite possibly the only club, with the exception of Chelsea, where the speculation surrounding the manager is greater ...
Future Prospect: Hatem Ben Arfa
By Inara | May 14th, 2007Instead of talking about the latest transfer gossip or how I feel about Houllier/Govou, I thought I'd take the time to introduce to you one ...
Utter Destruction and Lions Jumping Through a Ring of Fire
By Inara | May 9th, 2007Just all in a day's work for the perennial French champions. Lens were hoping to take advantage of Lyon's recent malaise to get three very ...
The Attackers Curse
By Inara | May 7th, 2007I was never one to believe in curses, but after watching the injuries pile up by the day, I'm convinced that someone has a voodoo ...
Just when you thought the injury crisis was over....
By Inara | April 12th, 2007In a year that has been plagued by injuries, last week, there was a brief light at the end of the tunnel when for the ...
Matchday 31 - PSG is breathing that much easier, more movement at the top
By Sam | April 8th, 2007The big stories in the 31st week of Ligue 1 action this were: PSG gaining a bigger distance away from the long-occupied relegation zone, Marseille ...
Lyon forgot to take their goalscorers to Valenciennes
By Inara | April 7th, 2007Oops. And once again, Super Fred, Wannabe Magnificent Milan, Last Second Hero Nino, and Boy Wonder Karim have been replaced by pod people in yet another ...
Karim Benzema is NOT a Baby
By Inara | April 6th, 2007Karim Benzema would like the world to know that he's 19, not 17, and therefore not a kid. So could everyone please stop treating him ...
Benzema Interview (in French)
By Inara | April 6th, 2007Quotidien sportif L’Equipe du 6/04/07 « Je n’ai plus 17 ans » Karim Benzema, qui n’a pas joué en finale de Coupe de la Ligue, veut rappeler ...
Lyon Invades Valenciennes
By Inara | April 6th, 2007Valenciennes vs. Olympique Lyonnais April 7, 2007 Stade Nungesser 11:10 AM Eastern US Time (17:10 in France) Lyon need a win here for two reasons: to bounce back from ...
What does every single club in the world have in common? They all want Nasri sooo bad
By Sam | March 29th, 2007And it's not as if surreal performance against Austria did anything to calm the likes of Inter and Arsenal down. Furthermore, it has come to ...
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