

Articles tagged with "le-mans-muc-72"
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, ...
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 ...
League Cup Round of 16 All Set Up
By Sam | October 1st, 2007With all the buzz surrounding tomorrow and Wednesday's Champions League matches featuring Lyon-Rangers and Liverpool-Marseille, not many people took the time to check out what ...
The Daily-Or-So News Dispatch (07.09.04)
By Sam | September 4th, 2007Bad news: September is upon us. So during the day while I could be blogging left and right, I have to go to high school ...
The Daily-Or-So News Dispatch (07.08.31) Transfer Special!
By Sam | August 31st, 2007Hear that creak? That's the sound of the window closing. Forever. aka a few months. Boy-oh-boy did everyone's favourite league produce some fresh comings and ...
Goal of the Week: Round 5
By Sam | August 28th, 2007Le Mans are kickin' it FIFA Street-style. After having Grafite run away with the award for his backheel last week, I think I know who's ...
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 ...
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 ...
LE MANS: Bad Shirts, Good Hearts
By Sam | July 14th, 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 ...
The This n' That of This Week's Transfers
By Sam | July 7th, 2007Not a very loud day on the transfer front, as it would have it, but we did find out that Sylvain Armand will not, I ...
Read all about it: Marseille finally wake the hell up and sign some delicious defending
By Sam | June 21st, 2007Weeks of laborious persuading and bartering have paid off for Olympique de Marseille, as they announced the imminent arrivals of three very respectful players, those ...
Matchday 38 - Talk About a Crazy Finish
By Sam | May 29th, 2007That's all, folks. Forget the fact that the first 37 weeks of the season were short of goals, that Lyon walked away with their sixth ...
Matchday 37 - Marseille is in the Champions League! Suspense Still not Over Elsewhere
By Sam | May 21st, 2007First off, sorry for waiting until today to bring you this palpitating and intense piece of Ligue 1 info. Laziness, The Simpsons and the fact ...
Matchday 36 - Don't Look Now But Marseille Have Just Gone Second And Are Looking Fine
By Sam | May 10th, 2007Oh my goodness gracious me, what a twist we had this week in the table, particularly up top. Marseille benifited from Lens and Bordeaux's losses ...
Matchday 35 - All Eyes on Lens, Bordeaux, and Marseille
By Sam | May 8th, 2007So, back am I from my fantastic weekend, and I've got some juicy-ass stuff to report from everyone's favourite league. Three games left for the ...
Matchday 34 - Damn, It's Getting Hot In That Table
By Sam | April 29th, 2007First off, I apologize for not posting all this week, but quite simply, there was not much to report. You'd think there would be, what ...
Matchday 33- You'd Think They'd Be Bored Of Being Champions After Six Years
By Sam | April 22nd, 2007Five matches to go for everyone, and everything is possible. Except for Olympique Lyonnais not winning their sixth straight championship. Other than that, sides such ...
Matchday 32- Who needs offense? Eight goals in ten games
By Sam | April 15th, 2007Sad, really. Eight goals in approximately 950 combined minutes. Lyon's almost title-clinching win was overshadowed by the sheer boringitude of Matchday 32, which saw- get ...
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 ...
Matchday 30: Oh God! Could it be? Paris-SG isn't retarded anymore!
By Sam | April 2nd, 2007Yes folks, it's true. Get this: Paris Saint-Germain is no longer in the relegation zone! After a strong win over second-place Lens, PSG are back ...
Matchday 29 - Lack of total domination? What lack of total domination?
By Sam | March 19th, 2007With nine weeks remaining in the season and a ludicrously close table, both at top and bottom, every game counts. Everyone says it, but in ...
Regarde bien: Highlights from Matchday 28
By Sam | March 12th, 2007Full highlights of Lyon-Marseille can be seen here. Kaboul's goal against PSG can be seen here. Pujol's goal for Sedan can be seen here, and Keita's reply ...
Matchday 28 - Marseille almost produces another miracle, PSG is still L1-incompetent
By Sam | March 12th, 2007Only ten games to go in the season, and (geez, who doesn't say this) things are heating up quite yummily. I daresay first place is ...
Matchday 27 - PSG bombs (figuratively), Saint-Étienne bombs (literally)
By Sam | March 5th, 2007Fans in France aren't big on violence. Besides PSG supporters, anyway. No, they prefer to bombard the pitch with flares and explosives in order to ...
Matchday 26 - Why win when you can draw in style?
By Sam | February 26th, 2007By that I mean Lyon's injury-time two-goal comeback to nullify Sochaux's earlier heroics Saturday at Gerland. Also happening was Toulouse humiliating Marseille, Saint-Étienne coolly beating ...
Matchday 25 - PSG wake up, OM take their place on the crap seat
By Sam | February 20th, 2007Lyon impressively came from behind to win at Lille, Paris spanked Nancy 3-0 away from home, and Barthez made his big fat return to Marseille, ...
Matchday 24 - Lyon decide they don't like losing, finally do something about it
By Sam | February 11th, 2007Matchday 24 in Ligue 1 set itself apart from other weekends this season, that being because of the 31 goals scored, Lyon snapping their pesky ...
Matchday 23 - Marseille and Paris hate each other to a draw, Lyon sucks once again
By Sam | February 4th, 2007This weekend's matches were overshadowed by the big, bad, OM-PSG, like they tend to be. However, Lyon made a valiant effort to work their way ...
Matchday 22 - Lyon winless in four, football gods laugh at sport gamblers
By Sam | January 28th, 2007I'm running out of oh-so-slick titles to suggest that Lyon's current winless streak is completely unexpected, thought-provoking and very funny. So yeah, this time, it ...
Matchday 21 - Pigs fly, Pope converts, Lyon loses two in a row
By Sam | January 25th, 2007Which of the above three statements is the most credible? I don't know for sure, but if you asked me a month ago, it'd been ...









