

Articles tagged with "lyon-ol"
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
European Round-Up: Lyon Awakens, Marseille Rides Luck, UEFA Cupsters Kick Off
By Sam | October 25th, 2007Here's an interesting role-change: Usually French clubs are lacking a bit of everything in the Champions League, and solid in the UEFA Cup. This week's ...
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 ...
Lyon (x) = Good, Marseille (y) = Bad. If League = Champions, Reverse Function
By Sam | October 3rd, 2007And the mystery continues. Lyon sucks in the Champions League, but are top in the Ligue. Marseille are outside the relegation zone on goal differential ...
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 (07.09.30)
By Sam | September 30th, 2007+ This weekend we had the chance to catch up on late matches from Week 3, and the first one was Lyon-Lens at Gerland. Lyon ...
Goal of the Week: Round 9
By Sam | September 26th, 2007With the curtain closing on last week's round in which Juninho emerged the winner, it is with even more pleasure that I bring you this ...
Représente ta ligue: The Lyon Sleeps Tonight
By Sam | September 19th, 2007Yes, I insist on using that headline every time, what of it? You've probably heard: Olympique Lyonnais were destroyed by Barcelona, Lionel Messi in particular, ...
Goal of the Week: Round 8
By Sam | September 18th, 2007Finally, some club football after international week. And you know what that means... Goal of the Week on France Offside! Nené picked up last week's ...
Représente ta ligue: Toulouse sees Red, Marseille to see Red, Lyon to Dance with Death, Lens Pwn in UEFA Cup
By Sam | August 30th, 2007Okay, first off, 4-0? Ouch. That's embarassing. I'll let Brian at the Liverpool Offside tell you more about it here. Now! The draw for the Champions ...
The Daily-Or-So News Dispatch (07.08.22)
By Sam | August 22nd, 2007Grabbing her first-born child by the scruff of the neck, Mary hurried him inside the house and told him to stay there. She knew the ...
The Daily-Or-So News Dispatch (07.08.20)
By Sam | August 20th, 2007Staring blankly at the two options in front of the register, Molly couldn't make up her mind. Should she buy the transfer news, or the ...
The Daily-Or-So News Dispatch (07.08.17)
By Sam | August 17th, 2007Breaking into the burning house of news and rumours, the valiant firefighter rallied his squad. "We've got to get in there and salvage every single ...
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 ...
The Daily-Or-So News Dispatch (07.08.09)
By Sam | August 9th, 2007Hungry for transfers, rumours and goings-on, the Daily-or-so News Dispatch (DND) pirate ship approaches an unsuspecting mom-and-pop info rowboat for the hottest Ligue 1 tidbits, ...
It's Inter's Turn to Say Nasri's theirs, Wiltord ain't Going Nowhere, Tosic to Werder Bremen
By Sam | August 6th, 2007It's adorable how every single club in the world thinks their offer will be the one to lure Samir Nasri along. Today, we heard Inter ...
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 ...
Sam's Fail-Proof Ligue 1 Predictions
By Sam | August 1st, 2007Greg at the Portugal Offside presented to us his wacky Liga predictions today, and not being able to resist the urge any longer, I'm going ...
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 ...
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 ...
Forget Abidal, Lyon's Going for Fabio Grosso Now
By Sam | July 3rd, 2007I'm back from the dead, aka from that dreadful Wordpress bug that kept me out of action for a few days, but it's all better ...
(Inhale...) Giuly! Sablé! Queudrue! Payet! Ziani! Runje! Malouda! Cheyrou! Koller! Sagna! Rozenhal! Givet!
By Sam | June 20th, 2007A particularly mouth-watering few days on the transfer front these past days, and Ligue 1 are doing their part in keeping the rumours going. Here's ...
Attention French Clubs Playing in Europe next Year: This is who you Need
By Sam | June 17th, 2007The three top finishers are going to the Champions League, the fourth is going to the UEFA Cup, the fifth to the Intertoto Cup, and ...
The France Offside is not Dead
By Sam | June 16th, 2007I'm awful sorry for not posting for over a week, folks, it's a bit frantic behind my steering wheel these days. Between gearing up for ...









