French Ligue 1


November 12th, 2008

“How Not To Handle a Backpass,” by Rémy Vercoutre

By: Laurie | Comments 4 Comments

Let’s say you’re a backup goalkeeper looking to prove your value to the team. You get your chance in a Cup game where your side is heavily favored. Your side goes down 2-0 early, but then they score a goal and put you back in the game. It’s 2-1. What do [...]



October 22nd, 2008

The French Act Like Grownups, Avoid Footy Strike

By: Laurie | Comments 1 Comment

French footy fans, rejoice. There will be games this weekend.
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about the probability that a strike would take down French football this weekend. At the time both sides looked set on their positions, and the strike looked inevitable.
I am happy to say that [...]

October 7th, 2008

Battle of the Acronyms as France Prepares for a Strike

By: Laurie | Comments 6 Comments

Striking is as French as baguettes, and a source of much French angst and humor. When our readers were chatting recently on the France blog about the emptiness of a stadium in Paris, one reader said,
Laurie- No one went to the game because september is the month for strikes.
Do you think people will [...]

September 25th, 2008

Pascal Feindouno: Mercenary on a Mission

By: chris | Comments 2 Comments

Pascal, current winger/forward for St. Etienne and one of their better players, is essentially holding his own club ransom. With the Asian transfer window still open - and absolutely no indication whatsoever of its date on the English-speaking web that I can find - Al Sadd announced they’d agreed a deal sending Pascal to Qatar [...]

September 20th, 2008

The European Weekend

By: chris | Comments 2 Comments

After kicking off the Champions League & UEFA Cup, Europe goes back home and hasn’t left us wanting, giving us some very big and very interesting games over the next two days. Though it would be nice if they all go together and split the good ones up evenly between Saturday and Sunday…



August 18th, 2008

Grenoble and Marseille Make Ligue 1 Interesting Again

By: Daryl | Comments 5 Comments

We told you the omens were good for a more open Ligue 1 title race this season. Lyon can’t have it all their own way forever, and after two games they’re in the rather unfamiliar position of not being the top team in France.
But it’s not Bordeaux either: it’s tiny Grenoble, freshly promoted to [...]

Category Category: French Ligue 1
August 3rd, 2008

Advantage Bordeaux for 2008/9?

By: Daryl | Comments 5 Comments

Even Lyon fans might have to admit that their team’s dominance of Ligue 1 is getting silly. They’ve won the last seven French titles. Which is a lot. They had also won every French Champions Trophy (pre-seasonish league winner vs cup winners game) from 2002 to 2007.
And for the 2008/9 French Champions Trophy, Lyon faced [...]

Category Category: French Ligue 1
July 11th, 2008

The Offside Euro 2008 Champion: Charles Snyder

By: Dave Martinez | Comments 5 Comments

Over three weeks of tournament action and only one country stood tall: Sweden. Ibrahimovich proved to be unstoppable in the virtual world, earning glory for his country where the real world left a bit to be desired. Standing in the finals against a tough Croatian squad, they dispatched their opponents 2-1 for [...]

May 18th, 2008

All Hell Breaks Loose As Ligue 1 Wraps Up

By: Inara | Comments 6 Comments

For those of you who follow the French league, you’ll know that goals aren’t easy to come by in France. But apparently, it looks like everybody saved the best for last. A total of 43 goals were scored yesterday to bring an end to this year’s season. And what an exciting end it was!
Of [...]

Category Category: French Ligue 1
May 17th, 2008

Photo of the Day: Seven is Sweet

By: Ian Rose | Comments 3 Comments

Fred and Kim Källström celebrate Lyon’s seventh straight Ligue 1 title with a 3-1 win at Auxerre, and are now one game away from the first domestic double in club history. It was a crazy day in France, with goals galore and battles for Europe and relegation coming down to the wire. Inara’s [...]



May 12th, 2008

Daily Dose 5.12.08

By: Laurie | Comments 2 Comments

Some news to read as you use a corpse head to smoke marijuana:

Because 2000 naked people are the obvious way to promote a footy tournament (Euro 2008 at WCB)
An England fan’s ode to the Polish National Team (Poland Euro 2008)
Photo Gallery: How the Premier League was won and lost (The Guardian)
When reality TV and [...]

May 5th, 2008

Title Watch Update

By: Laurie | Comments 5 Comments

A couple of titles were settled this weekend, and a couple of challenges got more complicated. Here’s what the Title Watch looks like after this weekend’s games:
Italy: Serie A
In an odd turn of events, AS Roma were AC Milan’s biggest fans this weekend as Milan dispatched cross-town rivals Inter, 2-1. Roma beat Sampdoria [...]

May 2nd, 2008

Daisuke Matsui’s Scorpion Pass

By: Daryl | Comments 1 Comment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdLSn5SqyLk

This is from the April 26th Ligue 1 game between Le Mans and Lens. The lofted ball to Le Mans midfielder Daisuke Matsui looks like it’s going out for a throw, but the Japanese international lets the ball drop over his shoulder and then uses his heel to play the ball in the air, straight [...]

Category Category: French Ligue 1
April 29th, 2008

Fabien Barthez Wants to Start a Goalkeeping Academy

By: Laurie | Comments 2 Comments

When last we saw former France goalkeeper Fabien Barthez on these pages, he was getting attacked by his own fans in Nantes after failing to help them avoid relegation.
Since then, for some reason, he seems to have been lying low. Not sure why.
But now Barthez has resurfaced with plans. He wants [...]

April 28th, 2008

Weekend Recap: Burning Up

By: Laurie | Comments 7 Comments

How did those weekend games we talked about on Friday come out?
Saturday
Chelsea 2-1 Manchester United
Chelsea’s Michael Ballack put away a penalty in the 86th minute, and suddenly we have a title race. Manchester United could have essentiall (if not numerically) locked it up with a win here. Instead, Chelsea and ManU are now [...]




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