Poor Fabien Barthez. Wasn’t it just four or five months ago that we all (or…well…me, at least) had our fingers crossed for new hope and a fresh start at Nantes? Alas, it seems it’s not to be.
Nantes has four games to go, and they’re still stuck firmly in the cellar [...]

Hurray! At last! An excuse to post this Cantona picture. (I love Eric Cantona.)
An interview in Australian Four-Four-Two with M. Cantona showed up on my screen this morning where he discusses the World Cup loss to Italy. His conclusion was that this loss had nothing to do [...]

I’m on my way out the door for the weekend, but I just had to share this photo and point you to Inara’s OL blog post about the young Raymond Domenech. What do you think?
Me? Oh, the horrors! The mustache! The eyebrow! The short, short shorts exposing hairy [...]

It’s April!
What does that mean, you ask? Well, it means that the transfer rumor mill is running full speed ahead.
And which French players are rumored to be targets? Take your pick. It might be easier to list the players who aren’t targets. But you usually [...]

The real reason I’m happy to see this news (first reported here late last year) is that it gives me the chance to devote a post to Bleus coach Raymond Domenech’s significant other, Estelle Denis. I am beyond fascinated by Estelle Denis, host of the French football program 100% Foot, (and more recently [...]

I loved the title to this article about Bleus and Lyon player Sidney Govou: “I Like Women a Little Round.” Is anybody else getting these visions of our Sid performing some French karaoke version of “Baby Got Back”? (Hey, it made ME laugh. And what makes me laugh [...]

This YouTube video isn’t new, but it was new to me. For some reason it reminded me of this photo set I posted last year sometime: Sweet, touching, and somehow just…kind of…wrong. And the music just makes it better. Or worse, depending on your perspective.

Who Ate All the Pies is having a contest to pick the EPL “team of the year,” and Patrice Evra is at the moment winning in today’s vote for Best Left Back. He deserves it! He’s having a great year for ManU, including that great Champions League goal against Roma (which he [...]

I stumbled on this photo of AS Roma centerback Philippe Mexès today. Made me laugh. (Okay, first it made me feel really, really old. Then it made me laugh.)
The interesting thing about writing about Philippe is that there are many, many sites dedicated to this Truly Pretty [...]

How adorable is this picture of a young Nicolas Anelka? Even if he doesn’t look incredibly happy. I think this was his second sojourn with PSG, back in 2000. Which would make him, what, 21 here? So adorable. I want to go back and adopt him and maybe keep [...]