

Auxerre (AJA)
Association Jeunesse d’Auxerre:
Founded 1905
In Ligue 1 since 1980
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, [...]
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 [...]
League Cup: Thrills,Spills and 13 Goals in 3 Matches
By: Sam |I say it way too often: Nobody cares about la Coupe de la Ligue. Well, results like the ones we witnessed today might be enough for me to reconsider that statement. While we’re still waiting for the other five matches to be played (tomorrow and thursday), the three today earned the right to be talked [...]
League Cup Round of 16 All Set Up
By: Sam |With all the buzz surrounding tomorrow and Wednesday’s Champions League matches featuring Lyon-Rangers and Liverpool-Marseille, not many people took the time to check out what went down at France Televisions headquarters in Paris, where the draw for the Last 16 of the Coupe de la Ligue was taking place. After LFP president Frédéric Thiriez went [...]
AUXERRE: Ligue 1’s Switzerland
By: Sam |As the start of the season looms, it’s time for the France Offside to give you an in-depth look at each of the 20 teams vying for Hexagoal. Today, we meet AJ Auxerre, the team that no one loves and no one hates (fact).
The team: A lot of changes have been brought to this team [...]
Read all about it: Marseille finally wake the hell up and sign some delicious defending
By: Sam |Weeks of laborious persuading and bartering have paid off for Olympique de Marseille, as they announced the imminent arrivals of three very respectful players, those being Benoît Cheyrou, Gaël Givet, and Laurent Bonnart.
weeks after signing upstarts Jacques Faty and Vincent Gragnic, the big trio (Pape Diouf, José Anigo, Albert Emon) lured the newest trio [...]
(Inhale…) Giuly! Sablé! Queudrue! Payet! Ziani! Runje! Malouda! Cheyrou! Koller! Sagna! Rozenhal! Givet!
By: Sam |A particularly mouth-watering few days on the transfer front these past days, and Ligue 1 are doing their part in keeping the rumours going. Here’s a quick rundown of all that crazy nonsense, chiefly involving the currently-dormant Olympique de Marseille, still needing reinforcements for their Champions League campaign, and to a lesser extent, Intertoto-bound Lens, [...]
The France Offside is not Dead
By: Sam |I’m awful sorry for not posting for over a week, folks, it’s a bit frantic behind my steering wheel these days. Between gearing up for final exams, cheering on Canada at the Gold Cup and having Internet problems, I try to post meaningful stuff as often as I can (well, maybe not entirely as often [...]
Matchday 38 - Talk About a Crazy Finish
By: Sam |That’s all, folks. Forget the fact that the first 37 weeks of the season were short of goals, that Lyon walked away with their sixth title whilst laughing in the face of suspense itself, that French clubs put forth a lukewarm effort in European leagues… The last day of Ligue 1 was something to behold. [...]







