

Le Mans (MUC 72)
Le Mans Union Club 72:
Founded 1985
In Ligue 1 since 2005
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 [...]
League Cup: Business As Painfully Usual
By: Sam |The Round of 16 of the Coupe de la Ligue rounded to a close today, with Le Mans beating Ligue 2 misfit Chamois Niortais. Here’s a rundown of what went down and what is scheduled to go down in the quarter finals.
Lyon laid down the law against upstarts Caen yesterday, with goals from Bodmer, Keita [...]
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 [...]
The Daily-Or-So News Dispatch (07.09.04)
By: Sam |Bad news: September is upon us. So during the day while I could be blogging left and right, I have to go to high school and “learn”. Sigh. I’ll try to hide my sadness (Dude, I got my skateboard confiscated before the frickin’ first bell, for crying out loud!) by force-feeding you these quick bits [...]
The Daily-Or-So News Dispatch (07.08.31) Transfer Special!
By: Sam |Hear that creak? That’s the sound of the window closing. Forever. aka a few months. Boy-oh-boy did everyone’s favourite league produce some fresh comings and goings today! Let’s get straight down to them.
+ Man, Le Mans are fast. Bad news first: Backheel-master Grafite has signed with Bundesliga outfit Wolfsburg! For a cool eight million euros, [...]
Goal of the Week: Round 5
By: Sam |Le Mans are kickin’ it FIFA Street-style. After having Grafite run away with the award for his backheel last week, I think I know who’s going to win this week, but that’s up to you. Here, in order of shirt number, are the three candidates for Goal of the Week this time around.
The Daily-Or-So News Dispatch (07.08.10)
By: Sam |Climbing up the steep and periolous face of DND mountain, the adventurers finally arrived to the top to meet the Ligue 1 guru sitting peacefully atop the icy pinnacle to fill in the weary men about the latest from the French league, with stuff about Karim Benzema, Mamadou Niang, Kim Kallström and Grafite.
+ Extra, extra! [...]
Goal of the Week Competition: Round 1
By: Sam |That’s right, all you Offsiders, France Offside is having a Goal of the Week competition this season. I’ve selected three of what I think are the best goals scored in the week, and it’s all of you who’ll decide which one was the very, very best. Let’s get right down to this week’s contestants, in [...]
LE MANS: Bad Shirts, Good Hearts
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 Le Mans UC 72, the team that can’t be taken seriously because they either look like Ronald McDonald or one of those gross five-cent [...]
The This n’ That of This Week’s Transfers
By: Sam |Not a very loud day on the transfer front, as it would have it, but we did find out that Sylvain Armand will not, I said will not move to Lyon this summer, but will opt to stay with PSG and try to get them back at the top of the table, as Come at [...]







