October 30th, 2006

France in the Champs League

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France’s rich history of Champions League play, which includes one ill-gotten win, a runner-up position in the inaugral season and a penalty shoot-out loss in the final to powerhouse Red Star Belgrade continues this week with our three teams hoping to keep up the good work (Lyon), the decent work (Lille) and in some cases, [...]

Category: Auxerre (AJA), Bordeaux (FCGB), European competition, France Ligue 1, Lens (RCL), Lille (LOSCM), Lyon (OL), Match Recaps, Nancy (ASNL), Paris (PSG), Team News, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup

Tags: Auxerre (AJA), Bordeaux (FCGB), Champions League, Cup, European competition, France Ligue 1, Lens (RCL), Lille (LOSCM), Liverpool, Lyon, Lyon (OL), Match Recaps, Nancy (ASNL), Paris (PSG), Team News, UEFA, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup

October 30th, 2006

Okay, but still

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I recently ranted against the stupid stadium regulations as to “pyrotechnic devices” and how they in no way intice supporters to cut back, but an incident happened at Nice-Marseille last Sunday that makes me reconsider.
At Nice’s Stade du Ray, a homemade mini-bomb was thrown from the stands and struck volunteer firefighter Anthony Roko in the [...]

Category: France Ligue 1, Marseille (OM), Nice (OGCN), Team News

Tags: Accident, Flare, France Ligue 1, Marseille, Marseille (OM), Nice, Nice (OGCN), Stadium, Team News

October 29th, 2006

There’s the fascist guy, then there’s him

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The surname Le Pen is not so popular amongst non-idiotic french people. Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the Front National, aka the Fascist People’s front, has a reputation of a madman, a racist, a homophobe, the whole enchilada. Then, there’s Ulrich Le Pen, and that’s a whole ‘nother story.
FC Lorient’s veteran midfielder had a breathtaking [...]

Category: France Ligue 1, Lorient (FCLBS), Player News, Team News, Valenciennes (VAFC)

Tags: France Ligue 1, Incredible, Keeper, Le Pen, Lorient, Lorient (FCLBS), Player News, Story, Team News, Valenciennes (VAFC)

October 29th, 2006

Matchday 11 - Home advantage the real story

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Lens 1-0 Auxerre kicked off the day, and Lens pleased their fans by offing rivals AJA thanks to a fine goal by Demont on 62 minutes. A flurry of shots by both sides wasn’t enough to get a second goal on the board, and Lens sits in 6th place, whereas Auxerre drops to 14th.
Bordeaux 3-1 [...]

October 26th, 2006

A bit too much justice

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The Ligue de Football Professionel has never had a reputation of being generous. Apart from the fact that they are all die-hard Lyon fans, they never hesitate to lob suspensions and fines at unsuspecting players and clubs. Here’s a wrap-up of a rather punishment-filled French Football Discipline Heroes meeting.
38 man-games will be served on [...]

Category: France Ligue 1, Paris (PSG), Team News

Tags: Dumb, France Ligue 1, Frau, League, Money, Paris (PSG), PSG, Team News

October 25th, 2006

Round of 16 - League Cup

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We’re down to eight teams in the cup that no one cares about. Not too many surprises, but it wouldn’t be a cup day without a few, wouldn’t it? Monaco travelled to Ligue 2 pensionary Reims under their new head coach hoping to start anew. Sorry guys. The team ranked seventh in the second division [...]

October 24th, 2006

Goal of the Week

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Toulouse’s Brian Bergougnoux’s bullet strike against Monaco earned him goal of the week honours.

Category: France Ligue 1, Highlight Videos, Toulouse (TFC)

Tags: Awesome, France, France Ligue 1, Goal, Highlight, Highlight Videos, Toulouse, Toulouse (TFC)

October 23rd, 2006

Monaco fire up the Baloney

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Laszlo Bölöni, that is. AS Monaco’s Romanian bench boss was shown the door, a mere 10 league games after being welcomed so nicely after Didier Deschamps left to pursue the Serie B title with some team named Juventus. Monaco’s long-time stand-there-and-do-nothing man Laurent Banide was hired in his stead.
The pride of the principality registered [...]

Category: France Ligue 1, Monaco (ASMFC), Team News, Transfers and Player Movement

Tags: Coach, France, France Ligue 1, Juventus, Monaco, Monaco (ASMFC), Romania, Team News, Transfers and Player Movement

October 23rd, 2006

Hi, I’m Sam, Lyon wins, blah blah blah

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Hi offsideateers, welcome to my branch of the wonderful website that is The Offside. The French Ligue 1, otherwise known as the race to second place, is well underway, and this here blog will, as you just may have guessed, follow this stupedously fantastic adventure.
So anyway, you may know last sunday Olympique Lyonnais came into [...]

Category: France Ligue 1, Lyon (OL), Marseille (OM), Match Recaps, Nancy (ASNL), Player News, Team News, Toulouse (TFC)

Tags: France, France Ligue 1, Juninho, Lyon, Lyon (OL), Marseille, Marseille (OM), Match Recaps, Nancy (ASNL), Player News, Ribery, Team News, Toulouse (TFC)

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