I guess Bolton and France striker Nicolas Anelka couldn’t possibly stay at a team for more than a year without getting wanderlust. (Just for the record, he’s played for seven clubs to date.)
In an interview that’s sure to impress current manager Sam Allerdyce at Bolton, Anelka told the French TV show Telefoot that he [...]

I’m never actually 100% certain when Bleus coach Raymond Domenech is kidding. But he’s once again brought up the possibility that Gonzalo Higuain, the nineteen-year-old Argentinian Real Madrid player with the French passport, play half of the February 7 friendly for France and half for Argentina.
Says Raymond: “He could play a [...]

There is American English, and there is British English. Don’t confuse them. I made the huge mistake of reading this article with my mind set firmly in American English mode, including the following sentence:
“Zidane…was caught on camera having a crafty fag before the World Cup semi-final against Portugal last summer.”
Giggle.
I [...]

Bleus coach Raymond Domenech is back again, winning friends and influencing people. His most recent target: Scotland’s ex-coach, Walter Smith. Smith just left (or, in Domenech’s opinion, abandoned) the Scotland team to coach the Glasgow Rangers (who dumped their coach, Paul Le Guen, who then went to Paris St. Germain after [...]

Sometimes one player will pop onto your radar screen over and over and over in a short period of time. This week it’s Djibril Cissé.
I just found an interesting blog write-up on Cissé’s Liverpool days. Not a particularly flattering account, but definitely worth reading.
And when something is this well-written and [...]

Bleus and Bayern Munich defender Willy Sagnol is apparently primed and ready to take over the captainship of Bayern Munich once current captain Oliver Kahn finally retires. In 2008. When Kahn will be, like, 80. (Or, okay, technically 39. Except aren’t soccer years kind of like dog years?)
Our Willy [...]

I was wandering the web yesterday and stumbled across this picture. Here’s what the caption claims it is: an incredibly young Fabien Barthez. With hair. (The other one is a World Cup photo, for comparison purposes.) What do you think?

A couple of people have asked me for some translations to the video, Rendez-Vous le 9 Juillet or a subtitled version. I think the subtitled version is a great idea, and I’ll keep my eye out, but I don’t hold out much hope — there’s just not the audience. (What’s wrong [...]

Apparently I’m not the only one who goes a little weak in the knees at the thought of a long-term Djibril Cissé-Franck Ribéry pairing. Now that they’ve been instrumental in bumping Marseille up into third place in Ligue 1, the duo has (surprise, surprise!) captured the attention of Bleus coach Raymond Domenech. [...]

I have to say I haven’t watched more than the first couple of minutes of this yet, because I wanted to get it posted. I can’t imagine it being allowed to stay up forever.
It’s apparently the full-length Canal+ show,Rendez-Vous le 9 juillet. It’s an hour and a half long, but if you [...]