Ben Arfa: Heading back to France sooner than expected…
Ben Arfa Stretchered Off in Newcastle’s game versus Manchester City
And not under the best of circumstance. Though it would have been hard to guess that he would be returning to France in worse condition than when he left. When Hatem left, he boycotted training at Marseille to push forward a (previously agreed upon) loan to Newcastle. A month later, he returns with leg fractured in two places. Read the rest of this entry »
Ligue 1, Matchday 7: The games you don’t want to miss!
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Ligue 1, Matchday 7 fixtures courtesy of the LFP
So many games, so little time! Here are some recommendations of the games you don’t want to miss and why they matter!
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Lyon: Claude Puel vs History
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As if Claude Puel’s job wasn’t hard enough these days with his current Ligue 1 competitors, he also has to deal with being compared to his illustrious predecessors at Lyon. Many of whom accumulated stellar, if not specular, records that most coaches would pale in comparison to.
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Ligue 1, Matchday 4: Bordeaux vs Marseille Liveblog
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Will Bordeaux prove they can win without Gourcuff beating defending champions, Marseille? We’ll chat about that and more…
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Ligue 1: Match Day 1 is here!
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Ligue 1 kicks off today – and after a series of computer problem, I finally managed to get something on the front page.
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Cheat Sheet: Ligue 1 Summer Training, friendlies and transfer activities!
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Just in case some of you were too distracted by the World Cup (and then needed time to recover from said World Cup) – here is a cheat sheet for you to catch up on the training schedules, friendlies and transfer activity that has happened in Ligue 1 (to date). To be updated as the [...]
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French Football Dose: 7/17/10
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I challenge you all to find a video with a better display of dribbling than this.
A Concise Round-Up of Ligue 1 Transfers (Global Football Today)
Ligue 1 Schedule for Season 10/11 (Ligue 1 Official)
Complete Ligue 1 Transfer Listing (iSocios)
Analyzing the Loic Remy Saga (Ligue 1 Talk)
If you haven’t seen it, The Infamous Lyon Kit Unveiling [...]
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PSG: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous (Story of its Life)
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Or possibly ridiculous to the sublime, as we should say in this case. Anyway, yesterday PSG played a sublime and ridiculous (mostly ridiculous) friendly match against Liga Sagres club Sporting Club de Portugal. It starts out with the ridiculous, then moves on to the sublime. The sublime, in case you were wondering, is a four [...]
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My Case for Firing Every Kit Designer in France
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What a team wears makes much more of a difference than many of you may think, in fact, the jersey of a team can be a primary reason for a prospective fan to develop an affinity. Watching the World Cup with relatives that know nothing of football [...]
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Ligue 1 Perspective: The 2010 FIFA World Cup (Part 3)
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Korea Republic:
Park-Chu Young of Monaco played in all four of South Korea’s matches at the World Cup, scoring once on a brilliant free kick against Nigeria:
His performances have generated interest from big clubs, particularly Liverpool, who are reported to have tabled a seven million euro bid for the striker.
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Team News
Don’t be nice. Beat Nice.
OGC Nice vs. Olympique Lyonnais
Matchday 37, Stade du Ray, Ligue 1 - 2012/13
The Plot
This is the biggest match of the season for Nice. It is their last match EVER at Stade du Ray before moving to the new Allianz Riviera for the next season. For Nice, ...
May 18, 2013 | Read this article...
Lyon vs QSG : a playoff final
Meeting this year's PSG is never a pleasing prospect. The remembrance of last winter's game in Parc des Princes is still painful, as with many absences and a fair dose a bad luck, OL had struggled to exist. It's not a reassuring prospect either to meet them just when there's ...
May 12, 2013 | Read this article...
T-Four!
AS Nancy-Lorraine vs. Olympique Lyonnais
Matchday 35, Ligue 1, 2012-13
A passable 1-1 draw against Saint-Etienne later, OL travels to Nancy this evening in the hopes of getting a firmer footing on 3rd spot. Marseille is provisionally 7 points ahead with 67, while PSG will definitively win the league if ...
May 05, 2013 | Read this article...
Lyon vs St Etienne : Enemy at the gate
Today's game is much more than Lyon trying to protect their third spot from the fourth, St Etienne. This is THE derby.
After 2 decades of derbies (during which Lyon supporters have grown in confidence whereas Les Verts fans, with no nails left to bite, stopped hoping that their team would ...
Apr 28, 2013 | Read this article...
The Home Stretch Harrasment
Montpellier Herault SC vs Olympique Lyonnais
Matchday 33 - Ligue 1 - 2012/13
The Defending Champions Montpellier await an OL team that is confused about its merits. A poor stumble of form later Lyon shocked themselves with a 3-1 win over Toulouse. Gomis got himself on the scoresheet and now leads ...
Apr 19, 2013 | Read this article...
Lyon vs Toulouse : Is there an end to our free fall (before we completely crash on the ground, that is)
How low have we already dropped? On the evening of the 26th matchday, the PSG was still in sight, three points ahead, but the OL had a rather comfortable mattress, 5 points ahead of Marseille, 6 of Nice, 7 of St-Etienne 10 of Montpellier and Rennes, and 11 of ...
Apr 14, 2013 | Read this article...
It ain't working.
Stade de Reims vs. Olympique Lyonnais
Stade Auguste Delaune, Matchday 31, Ligue 1 - 2012-13
In the Home fixture against Stade Reims back in November, OL beat them 3-0. Stade Reims was then in the middle of a 16 match winless streak. But no inference is necessary, people.
Lyon has just had a ...
Apr 07, 2013 | Read this article...
Lyon vs Sochaux : about pride and ambition
A little less than two weeks after the crushing defeat in Bastia (4-1), and an international truce finally welcome to reflect on it, Rémi Garde had two tasks on his plate. First, to explain the collective failure in Corsica ; second, to bounce back against Sochaux. "I expect that we ...
Mar 31, 2013 | Read this article...
Valbuena vs. Georgia: No Contest!
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Valbuena out the team on his back yesterday in France's crucial 3-1 win over Georgia which sees them top their group for World Cup qualification. To say Mathieu ran the show would be underselling it, he was making everybody look good assuming ...
Mar 23, 2013 | Read this article...
Hot off the Lyon Offside Community : You Don't Replace Dinosaurs With Dragons!
At the Lyon Offside, we're lucky to have readers from all over the world, with an amazing range of backgrounds and interests. And despite this incredible diversity, as unlikely as it may appear, they have one interest in common : the Olympique Lyonnais.
However, whilst this blog allows everyone to ...
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