The derby and what followed

Hello again, loyal readers... I apologize for not posting earlier but sometimes your personal life can get in the way of your other duties. I just ...

Just in time for the derby...

The Saint Etienne blog is back! My name is Ben and I will be writing for the Saint Etienne Offside as of today. With the ...

Ben

Where were we?

Time to get this blog going again. That was a bit of a long break - sorry about that, my wife gave birth to our ...

St Etienne 1 PSG 0

That's more like it. Out of the relegation zone, and a superb goal to boot: Thank you, Mouhamadou Dabo. I doubt we'll see a better goal ...

Caen 2 St Etienne 0

Well that's it I think, the start of the new season is now officially a disaster for St Etienne. Five games, four defeats and only ...

St Etienne 0 Lyon 1

Not sure if this is one of St Etienne's worst ever starts to a season, but it is now officially really bad. Three defeats in ...

UEFA Cup draw

Right then, it's Hapoel Tel Aviv. Not a name to set the pulses racing, but a decent team with plenty of experience in Europe. St ...

Pre-Lyon round-up

It's a big week for St Etienne. The draw for the UEFA Cup takes place at 13h on Friday. This will provide Les Verts with ...

A good crowd

Some clubs would be glad to get this many supporters at a normal game, let alone at a training session. So come on, les Verts, ...

Le Mans 1 St Etienne 0

Dear oh dear. Another away game, another defeat. This was not the best way to prepare for next weekend's crucial derby clash with Lyon. Was ...

Piquionne's fit of pique

You may have heard of Frédéric Piquionne. He played for St Etienne for two and a half seasons, scoring 23 goals before being loaned to ...

St Etienne 2 Sochaux 1

Sorry, I got the time of the game wrong in the last post - it was at 19h, not 21h. Oops! Anyway, the main thing ...

A new record

There was more evidence of St Etienne's popularity yesterday when the club revealed that it had sold 17,419 season tickets for 2008/9. This beats the ...

Janot to Lille?

Goalkeeper Jérémie Janot could leave St Etienne before the end of the month, according to French national sports daily l'Equipe. Janot missed part of the ...

Geoffroy-Guichard Mark II?

St Etienne could move to a new stadium in the next few years, according to club president Bernard Caïazzo. In an interview with local paper ...

Jonathan

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Yoann Gourcuff at Saint Etienne?

According to Le Parisien it's possible (although, admittedly, they also go on to say that it has little chance of coming to fruitrition). The former Rennais ...

ASSE -- Lens (delayed match)

Lens is fignting to stay in the top-flight, so this shouldn't be that much of a challange on paper, but Lens is always tough, and ...

Saint Etienne 4, Le Mans 1

Great news; Saturday, Saint-Etienne played the 31st match of the season (it's important to note that both Saint Etienne & Lens are a game behind) against ...

José Mourinho signs on as ASSE Manager(!?!!?)

I just read this article online about Mourinho signing today to manage Saint Etienne next season. This is totally incredible, and completly unexpected. I'm so ...

No Game No Gain

So we don't play this weekend, which will probably see us drop a few spots on the table, but don't get discouraged, dear ASSE fans! Janot ...

Auxerre 1 -- ASSE 3 and our European chances

Well, let me start off by saying that I was wrong. Totally wrong. Pedretti played (initial reports were that he'd be out) More importantly though, we scored four ...

Auxerre -- Saint-Étienne preview

So we play Auxerre (away) this weekend. Bad News First: We have yet to beat Auxerre this season, despite this being the fourth time we play them. ...

Introduction

OK first of all, I guess I should introduce myself; I'm Richard St.Ofle, I'm an artist, designer and an obsessive football fan. I'll be writing ...

Richard St. Ofle

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