

Monaco (ASMFC)
Association Sportive de Monaco Football Club:
Founded 1919
In Ligue 1 since 1977
Your Guide to Ligue 1 Kits This Year (3/4)
By: Sam |Fear not, readers, I’m still here and I haven’t forgotten to finish up my exposé of every shirt in the league this season. Here are the penultimate bunch.
MONACO: True, they’ve barely changed since the dawn of man, but they’re still nice. The red and white defines them, and they’ve stayed true to that. Then again, [...]
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 [...]
Goal of the Week: Round 8
By: Sam |Finally, some club football after international week. And you know what that means… Goal of the Week on France Offside! Nené picked up last week’s honours with his whizzing free-kick, but that’s not important right now. For there are new candidates for this week, in order of the coolness of the stadium in which the [...]
Goal of the Week: Round 7
By: Sam |Of the seven Goal of the Week posts I’ve done so far, none have been harder than this one. Last week’s edition saw Jimmy Briand through as winner, but I really don’t know who’s going to come away with it this time around. With apologies to Grégory Proment, Bakary Koné and Jérôme Leroy, who all [...]
The Transfer Cauldron is Boiling Once Again
By: Sam |08/08/08 is one year away, but some clubs decided 08/08/07 was lucky enough to go ahead and make some substantial transfers. What’s more, today there was a surprisingly high ratio of actual signings to unfounded rumours. I like these kinds of days.
+ First off, it seems as though Italian defender Manuele Blasi is going to [...]
MONACO: Blame it on Poetic Justice
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 AS Monaco, the team that is based in Moneyland, Europe, and supported by the Prince, but still can’t do much.
The team: Like I said, [...]
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 [...]
Bordeaux Wants 15 mil for Faubert, Sam Laughs Heartily
By: Sam |Okay, listen up. First of all, everyone knows Julien Faubert is on his way out of Bordeaux, everyone also knows he wants to try something abroad. What’s more is that everyone having an IQ of over 12 will not pay 15 million euros for the 23-year old attacking midfielder. Glasgow Rangers, among the clubs keen [...]
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 [...]







