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Your Guide to Ligue 1 Kits This Year (2/4)
By: Sam |More kits! Get’em while they’re hot! Here’s the second installment of the Ligue 1 top show.
LILLE: Think Auxerre, but red. Again, they’re simple and solid, with that wavy line going down the side. Hasn’t changed much over the years, but then again it doesn’t need to. And the Partouche goes well with it all. I [...]
Your Guide to Ligue 1 Kits This Year (1/4)
By: Sam |It’s every football fan’s soft spot: Shirts. Everyone loves discussing new shirts, sponsors, colour schemes, and so forth. And just because I love you all, I’m letting you in on pretty little images of each, with my unique interpretations of all. Hope you enjoy them!
AUXERRE: Never wavering from the handsome and solid blue and [...]
Goal of the Week: Round 15
By: Sam |Never mind the Bollocks, here’s the Goal of the Week! After Aruna Dindane won the last edition with his improbable chip, I’ve got a fresh new batch of crackers for you to choose from. It’s a pity I’m limiting it to three goals, because there’s at least half a dozen that could’ve been featured. Nevertheless, [...]
Matchday 15: LIVEBLOG
By: Sam |22:00 – There it is. Final scores are as follows:
CAEN 5-0 BORDEAUX
LENS 1-1 LORIENT
MARSEILLE 3-1 METZ
NANCY 2-0 LILLE
SAINT-ÉTIENNE 1-0 SOCHAUX
STRASBOURG 0-0 VALENCIENNES
TOULOUSE 0-0 MONACO
RENNES 0-2 LYON (Earlier)
21:56 – Marseille almost had one last hurrah: Ayew and Cissé came close, but it seems we’re done for the night.
21:54 – Things are slowing down here. Half the [...]
Announcement: Ultimate LIVEBLOG of Death Coming Your Way
By: Sam |Oh, shyit: I’m going there. Join me tomorrow, here on the France Offside, for seven Ligue 1 matches at once narrated simultaneously with insight, stats, goals, scores, maybe even some discussion in the comments, i.e. the whole enchilada.
It all starts at 8 p.m. French time, so 2 p.m. eastern time, but I’ll be here before [...]
Ligue 1 Coming to the Stade de France!
By: Sam |L’histoire s’apprête à être écrite, sort of. It was announced today by Lille OSC’s official website that on the evening of 1 March 2008, Lille will play host to Olympique Lyonnais… at the Stade de France! That’s right, the mighty SdF which was built for France 98 is celebrating its ten-year anniversary, and to mark [...]
The Daily-Or-So News Dispatch (2007.11.22)
By: Sam |Things are a bit slow club-wise during the international break (HAHAHAH ENGLAND SUCKS), so bear with me if the newsy bits are not all that captivating during the next little bit. I’m trying out a bit of a new format for these daily (Daily? Feel free to laugh at me.) news posts.
Auxerre: AJA were saddened [...]
Goal of the Week: Round 13
By: Sam |What’s that you say? You want goals? Well have I got a proposition for you! Watch these. You, the readers, have voted Rodrigo’s goal the best of the best from last week’s batch, and now you can do the same with this trio of wickedness. Here are, in order of number of letters in their [...]
Matchday 13: Lyon, Meet Driver’s Seat
By: Sam |Oh wait, you already know each other. For the past six years you say? Oh.
Indeed all eyes were on Lyon this week as they won their fifth straight in the league against a Valenciennes side who were not without a fighting spirit but ended up ruing their wasted chances. Celebrating the 20-year anniversary of [...]
Samir Nasri Evokes the Apocalypse, “Could Leave Marseille”
By: Sam |Oui, c’est possible que je parte.
Gah.
In an interview with the unfortunately credible French sports newspaperL’Équipe, the 20-year old, who played his first full 90 today since coming down with an injury, confided that a departure from Marseille at the end of this season would be possible. What with there being more prestigious clubs than OM [...]






