Articles tagged with "lyon"
Press Conferences, Practice, and Whatnot
By Inara | September 18th, 2007Less than 24 hours to go before what promises to be one of the most stressful 90 minutes of my life. I've already done a ...
The Fans: Epilogue
By Inara | September 16th, 2007Now that the league is starting up again, it's time to end Fan Week. I've had a great time learning about you guys, either through ...
Update on the Ladies
By Inara | September 16th, 2007A lot has been happening with OL Féminines, so here's a recap of what's been going on. OL captain Sonia Bompastor prepares for France. Domestic: Their ...
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 ...
Group Stages: Analysis and Predictions
By Adam | September 14th, 2007As soon as any competition is about to begin, there are torrents of analysis and predictions by various fans. And since I'm no different than ...
Metz vs. Lyon, aka Champions League Warm Up
By Inara | September 14th, 2007FC Metz vs. Olympique Lyonnais September 15, 2007 Stade Municipal Saint-Symphorien, Metz 2:00 PM Eastern Time (20:00 in France) Match details: This Saturday, Lyon travel to the northeast corner ...
How the Injured Fellows Are Doing
By Inara | September 13th, 2007Lyon have been all about the injuries since even before the season began (we started having our injury crisis during the Peace Cup). Luckily, most ...
New Stadium Plans Unveiled - Sort Of
By Inara | September 12th, 2007On Thursday, June 6, Gerard Collomb, Mayor of Lyon and Blogger Extraordinaire, presented "Project OL Land" to Lyon town officials. Unfortunately, this was not a public ...
The Fans: Loving Lyon From VERY Far Away
By Inara | September 11th, 2007My next victim interviewee is Scott. He grew up in Lyon and witnessed Lyon's rise from Ligue 2 to where they are today. However, Scott ...
Happy Birthday, Jérémy!!!
By Inara | September 10th, 2007Today is Jérémy Toulalan's 24th birthday, which he is celebrating with Raymond Domenech and the other members of ...
The Fans: An American Convert
By Inara | September 8th, 2007The next few posts in this series will be devoted to interviews I conducted of a few fans. Each of them are different and offer ...
The Fans: The Ultras
By Inara | September 7th, 2007In today's post of getting to know the fans, we'll learn about the various Lyon ultras. Ultras refer to a club's supporter groups, each of which ...
Champions League, Were having a laugh!!
By Del_Boy | September 6th, 2007So it has been drawn, the group stages of the champions league and Rangers look as if they have been drawn in the “group of ...
The Fans: Why do you like Lyon?
By Inara | September 5th, 2007Since it's international week, and since the only thing happening at the Gerland right now is the Rugby World Cup, I'm taking a break from ...
ESPN Soccernet Doesn't Think Lyon Will Qualify
By Inara | September 4th, 2007For the non-American football fans out there, ESPN aren't exactly known for their excellent football analysts and commentators, and are home to obvious EPL bias. ...
POLL: Lyon's Summer Mercato
By Inara | September 3rd, 2007How do you rate Lyon's transfers this summer? Did the players improve or weaken the team? Recap: IN: Bodmer, Keita, Belhadj, Grosso, Anderson, Roux OUT: Malouda, ...
The six biggest surprises so far as the transfer window closes
By Brian | August 31st, 20076. Crouch wasn't sold Okay, so this isn't much of a surprise as Rafa has said again and again that Crouchy isn't going anywhere. I ...
3 remaining Scot sides get their European Draws
By Ian Rose | August 31st, 2007Well, Pars are out thanks to a pair of lackluster (to put it kindly) matches against Hacken, but three Scottish sides remain in European competition, ...
On Second Thought...
By Inara | August 30th, 2007After I've had some time to cool down and think about this logically, I've come to some conclusions. First of all, while this will be ...
Marseille draws Liverpool, Porto and Besiktas....
By Magnusson | August 30th, 2007Let's leave my state of high pissed-offness to give you some news. Today was held in ...
Lyon Are Still %#$@ed
By Inara | August 30th, 2007Their Champions League Group aka The Group of Death: Barcelona Lyon Stuttgart Rangers I wonder if Aulas will be getting any sleep tonight. I know Perrin won't. Lyon's current injury crisis ...
Another %#$@ing Injury
By Inara | August 29th, 2007During today's match against Sochaux, Fabio Santos hurt his knee and had to be taken out of the game. The severity of the injury isn't ...
Sochaux vs. Lyon, CL Group Draw, and Other News
By Inara | August 29th, 2007Sorry for my lack of posting, but I've been moving for the past few days and just got my internet set up last night. Anyway, ...
Derby Time!!!
By Inara | August 25th, 2007Since I've started writing for this blog only last April, I've never had the privilege of covering a derby. I plan to go all out ...
Valencia Now Want Juninho
By Inara | August 24th, 2007Valencia's sporting director, Miguel Angel Ruiz, is like a bad case of herpes. He just keeps coming back at the most importune moments. For the ...
Update-O-Rama
By Inara | August 23rd, 2007Lots of things have been happening at the Gerland this past week. ~~~~~~~~ First of all, Lyon have signed another goalkeeper to be Remy Vercoutre's backup. ...
Wiltord Leaves Lyon
By Inara | August 22nd, 2007It was bound to happen. I've been reporting on Sylvain Wiltord unrest since last April, and to be frank, I thought he would be one ...
Lyon's Defensive Options
By Inara | August 20th, 2007I'm fairly confident that Lyon will sign a defender by the end of this week. At the latest, by the beginning of next week. So ...
Non-Update
By Inara | August 19th, 2007I don't feel like writing about Lorient's 2 - 1 win over Lyon yesterday. Lyon played like crap whereas Lorient probably deserved to win by ...
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