

Articles tagged with "nantes-fcna"
(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 ...
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 ...
Ligue 2 - Familiar Faces Going Back to the Top Flight
By Sam | May 25th, 2007As the France Offside blogger, it is my duty to bring you predominantly news from Ligue 1 and Coupes, but also a semi-seasonal report on ...
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 ...
Some Ligue 1 Briefs To Nibble On
By Sam | May 3rd, 2007-Marseille and Sochaux are in talks before facing each other next Saturday in the final of the Coupe de France, as rumours have Karim Ziani ...
Fabien Barthez Goes And Kills His Career As Nantes Plummets
By Sam | April 29th, 2007Parents, please, for the well-being of your young, I plead you not to let them around former/current Nantes goalkeeper and former (for sure) French international ...
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 ...
My Coupe Runneth Over: The Finals Are Set, Sadly There's No Fourth-Tier Team Involved
By Sam | April 18th, 2007Who doesn't love cup magic? There's always that one amateur team that knocks off a few big boys before bowing out very respectfully in the ...
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 ...
My Coupe runneth over: Everyone loves a fourth-tier team in the semi-finals!
By Sam | February 28th, 2007Like Bob said in his article about the game today, only domestic cups can offer the nutsness that is amateur clubs upsetting the greats of ...
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, ...
Nantes sack coach, seem to have a knack for hiring men with odd names
By Sam | February 12th, 2007FC Nantes-Atlantique, currently 19th in the Ligue 1 table, started out the season with a man named Serge Le Dizet at the helm. Translated from ...
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 ...
My Coupe runneth over: Highlight videos from the last 16
By Sam | February 1st, 2007Marseille 2-1 Lyon Nantes 1-0 (a.e.t.) Lille Keseru coupe de franceenvoyé par messikoala Monaco 0-2 Sochaux Manaco 0-2 Sochaux (coupe de france)envoyé par El_NiNo_90 Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 Valenciennes Cristian Rodriguezenvo
My Coupe runneth over: Now that's what I call nuts
By Sam | January 31st, 2007I'm sure every single one have read, or have been read by someone else the epic novel that is The Little Engine That Could. You ...
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 ...
My Coupe runneth over: To be cool, you gotta wait 122 minutes to score the game's first goal
By Sam | January 21st, 2007The last 32 of the Coupe de France saw not many upsets. I mean, argh, only one team from a lower division then its opponent ...
Matchday 20 - Lyon manages to lose against Toulouse
By Sam | January 14th, 2007O God, how the mighty have fallen! Olympique Lyonnais, leader of Ligue 1! Humiliated! With a slender lead of 14 points over second place, got ...





