French Ligue 1
“How Not To Handle a Backpass,” by Rémy Vercoutre
By: Laurie |
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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 [...]
Tags: bad goalkeeping, Coupe de la Ligue, FC Metz, French Ligue 1, Lyon, Olympique Lyonnais, Remy Vercoutre, World FootballThe French Act Like Grownups, Avoid Footy Strike
By: Laurie | 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 [...]
Battle of the Acronyms as France Prepares for a Strike
By: Laurie | 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 [...]
Pascal Feindouno: Mercenary on a Mission
By: chris | 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 [...]
The European Weekend
By: chris | 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…
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By: Daryl | 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: French Ligue 1Advantage Bordeaux for 2008/9?
By: Daryl | 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: French Ligue 1The Offside Euro 2008 Champion: Charles Snyder
By: Dave Martinez | 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 [...]
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By: Inara | 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: French Ligue 1Photo of the Day: Seven is Sweet
By: Ian Rose | 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 [...]
Tags: france, Fred, French Ligue 1, Karim Benzema, Kim Kallstrom, Ligue 1, Lyon, Photo of the Day, titleDaily Dose 5.12.08
By: Laurie | 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 [...]
Title Watch Update
By: Laurie | 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 [...]
Daisuke Matsui’s Scorpion Pass
By: Daryl | 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: French Ligue 1Fabien Barthez Wants to Start a Goalkeeping Academy
By: Laurie | 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 [...]
Weekend Recap: Burning Up
By: Laurie | 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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