

Rennes (SRFC)
Stade Rennais Football Club:
Founded 1901
In Ligue 1 since 1994
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 [...]
European Round-Up: Lyon Awakens, Marseille Rides Luck, UEFA Cupsters Kick Off
By: Sam |Here’s an interesting role-change: Usually French clubs are lacking a bit of everything in the Champions League, and solid in the UEFA Cup. This week’s European fiesta had that changed around, with Lyon and Marseille winning and drawing respectively, and the UEFA Cup contenders gathering a win to go with two losses.
The big story was [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Daily-Or-So News Dispatch (07.09.19)
By: Sam |The big news on the French football front today was of course Lyon’s slap-in-the-face trip to Barcelona, but let’s not forget the other goings-on around the league, with other clubs gearing up for their UEFA Cup matches tomorrow, Ligue 2’s Week 7, and what Raymond Domenech has to say about Marseille’s chances in the Champions [...]
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 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 6
By: Sam |So basically, last round had no contest. Daisuke Matsui’s ninja flick has to be one of the best scored in Europe this year. Which is a bit of a letdown for this week, which produced many, many, ball-is-loose-in-the-area goals. Regardless, here are, in alphabetical order of keeper scored against, the candidates for this week’s goal [...]







