

Lens (RCL)
Racing Club de Lens:
Founded 1906
In Ligue 1 since 1991
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
Goal of the Week: Round 12
By: Sam |Goal of the Week on the France Offside is back after the Matchday 11 hiatus, and do I have some swell goals to pick from for you! Kim’s goal was the pick of the litter from last round, but now it’s time for this week’s contestants, in order of the opposing goalkeeper’s hair length.
The Daily-Or-So News Dispatch (07.10.17)
By: Sam |First off, I’m awfully sorry for my absence, it was due to an Internet problem, lots of school bullshit and a lot of laziness and business. But I’m back, buoyed after France’s two super wins in the EURO qualifiers. Here’s what’s making waves today.
+ This upcoming weekend, Jean-Pierre Papin is making a much anticipated return to [...]
Misson Somewhat Accomplished for UEFA Cupsters
By: Sam |With one quarter of the Ligue 1 clubs competing in the first round of the UEFA Cup, whose second leg was disputed this week, you knew not all of them would go through, especially since it wasn’t by any means the top of the crop repping the ligue. Well, out of the five, three went [...]
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 (07.09.30)
By: Sam |+ This weekend we had the chance to catch up on late matches from Week 3, and the first one was Lyon-Lens at Gerland. Lyon could go top if they took it by three goals. They did. A smart goal by Fabio Santos (I know! Isn’t that weird?), and two spectacular ones from Kimmy Kallström [...]
Goal of the Week: Round 9
By: Sam |With the curtain closing on last week’s round in which Juninho emerged the winner, it is with even more pleasure that I bring you this matchday’s version of le But de la Semaine. Just so you know, the goals featured in this week’s post totally own yo mama. Here are the candidates, in order of [...]
Représente ta ligue: Not a Bad UEFA Cup Start for our Boys
By: Sam |If you’re a France fan, it’s hard not to be a UEFA Cup fan. We rock at it, before the knockout round at least. If we could only be as good in the Champions League, we’d be set. Regardless, the lesser-cup fans were delighted today with the 38 matches being played from Russia to Scotland [...]







