Weekend Watch Recap: Let's Dance

Saturday Roma 2 - Milan 1: For the Giallorossi faithful, and probably some neutral observers, this one's going directly into the vault as one of the ...

FIFA 08 Tourney - need your info

There are 4 teams that are basically MIA. I need an answer regarding your participation by Monday at 5pm. If not, I will dip into ...

Weekend Watch: When Maldini Met Totti, the finale

Saturday Roma v Milan: Because it's two of the biggest clubs in Europe fighting for two vastly different spoils, and not what you'd usually expect. Roma ...

Round of 16 First Leg Wrap-up

Anderlecht 0-5 Bayern Munich Wow. This always looked like a lopsided tie, but I didn't expect this. With ten goals in their last two ...

The UEFA Cup "league table"

I got to thinking last night about different ways to talk about the 16 remaining teams in the UEFA Cup. Which side really is ...

Marseille 2-1 PSG, Master of our domain...

How long this match was! It took an eternity for us to win this game. The tension was at its highest when Alain Cayzac stepped ...

Weekend Watch: Not What Was Intended

In short, it was a very, very good weekend to be the home team, and a very, very bad weekend to be Arsenal. ManYoo 4 - ...

Weekend Watch: Derbies Abound

If you were good enough on Valentine's Day, you may just be allowed to sit on the couch and watch footy all weekend. Well, it's ...

It's Raining Money

After Sports Illustrated released their latest list of the richest athletes, the firm Deloitte has put forth the annual list of the world's 20 richest ...

Funny things about Rennes-Marseille

Whilst I was watching Rennes-Marseille, I was surprised by the large amount of trivia that the commentators were talking about. So I decided to have ...

Sour grapes still make wine

After a 3-0 win against Martigues in the Coupe de France, it was back to Ligue 1 and business as Marseille came to Brittany. In ...

Amine Chermiti Scores the Most Determined Goal of 2007

Third-place playoffs are normally lackadaisical affairs where no one really cares who wins. But when you're Urawa Red Diamonds and Étoile du Sahel, and never ...

Is Djibril Cissé the Unluckiest Footballer in the World?

It's difficult to feel sorry for millionaire footballers. First of all, they're millionaires. Second, they get to play football every day. But when you've had ...

D-2, There's no need to worry...

Okay. Apparently nobody is expecting us to win Tuesday night at the Vélodrome against Liverpool. I get it, they seem super strong, they have world ...

Run Away, Liverpool are Coming!

The authorities in Marseille are in full freak-out mode today in anticipation of the arrival of Liverpool supporters for Wednesday's crucial Champions League match. In ...

Fred is "Injured" and Other News

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Apparently, Fred still hasn't recovered from the slight knock to his muscle from last Friday and won't be part of the squad that travels to ...

Even Closer To Relegation?

Toulouse and Nancy square off today in their 16th match of the season. A Toulouse victory could bring Lille even closer to relegation zone. Toulouse ...

Lille/Marseille Match Video

Lille Breaks Marseille's Winning Streak

Last Saturday Lille broke Marseille's two match winning streak. OM came into the match after a UEFA CL match loss against Besiktas. Line-ups: LOSC Sylva Béria Plestan Rami ...

Nancy 2-0 LOSC: La rage de réussir

Les Dogues gained another loss this Ligue 1 season. They faced a confident and high ranking nancéenne side. Line-ups: Nancy Bracigliano Chrétien André-Luiz Puygrenier Sauget Berenguer Gavanon Malonga ...

Marseille 3-1 Metz, with Turkey in sight...

What a great game on ourend! Marseille controlled the game from start to finish and Metz never stood a chance. We knew Metz was ...

Didier Drogba Burns the Other Bridge, Just to Make Sure

Didier Drogba's emotional outpourings know no end. Not so long ago he was telling us that "something is broken at Chelsea" and that he was ...

The nightmare that is our Ligue 1 season continues...

Mamadou Niang scores at the 9th minute his second goal this week, Ronald Zubar at the 31st and Laurent Bonnard finishes at the 51st. Normally ...

So close....

Marseille and Porto gave us one of the more pleasant games of this matchday (not as pleasant as Arsenal's display but hey! those games happen ...

If My Predictions Are Wrong, I Don't Wanna Be Right

When it comes to football, I consider myself a Vulcan in a human being's body. I'm logical, level headed, and can tend to be ...

Let's not get ahead of ourselves....

I know all eyes will be on us after the game we offered football fans everywhere a few weeks ago at Anfield. Everybody will be ...

The wild Vagner Love rumor...

According to Tutto Mercato, the first name Eric Gerets gave his new bosses when he took over at the Commanderie was that of brazilian phenom ...

Short term pain for long term gain?

It's hard to have a season-long view of rotation when the team plays in such a disjointed, insipid and uninspired manner. Perhaps we'll be looking back ...

Marseille tonight...

So what's going to happen? Personally, I'd like to see Torres rested for this one. Tottenham will be a big match, even if they're not playing ...

Lyon Are (Sort of) Rich and Popular

A few days ago, Bob thoughtfully pointed out BBDO's newest rankings of the most valuable football clubs. As many of you can guess, a club's ...