This is a photo I took of a couple of Scottish fans at the France-Scotland game in Paris. You can’t tell from the photo, but they’re all wearing kilts.
I wrote up an article about what it was like to be around all of this Scottish passion. I’m not posting it here [...]

This is the video of Karim Benzema’s third goal at the Metz-Lyon game I was at on Sept. 15. (Look! That’s me in seat 1179! Or something like that.)
This gives you an idea of why I’m so excited at the possibility of a Karim Benzema-Hatem Ben Arfa combination. [...]

I wanted to get this posted right away because you never know how long something like this will last on YouTube. It’s the first video from the special on Zidane “Comme dans un rêve” (”Like a Dream.”) And best of all, it’s in English.
For links the the remaining nine parts, [...]

Samir Nasri is one sick puppy. He’s been hospitalized with “a virus” and won’t even be training with Marseille for at least ten days.
And what is that virus?
One source described it as, “starting out as a bad head cold.” Okay, that doesn’t sound so bad.
But SkySports describes [...]

Add Inter’s Roberto Mancini to the long and growing list of managers upset with how Franch coach Raymond Domenech manages his players.
Inter Milan coach Roberto Mancini has criticised France boss Raymond Domenech for playing Patrick Vieira in both the recent Euro 2008 qualifiers despite the midfielder carrying a hamstring injury. … In the [...]

I meant to write this up before I left on my trip, but I guess there’s no time like the present.
There was a lot of transfer news this summer among longtime and sometime members of the France NT. We have a bunch of players who’ve moved on, and also some who [...]

I’m home at last, sitting here drinking a venti triple latte from Starbucks. (Because I can.) Then I think I’ll have some ICE water for the same reason. And I’m sitting here at my computer trying to get used to an American keyboard again. I’m still automatically looking at [...]

Okay France fans, altogether now. Let’s put our heads together and engage in a collective primal scream of the “How the hell did this happen!?!” variety.
So. Yeah. How the hell did this happen? Absolutely beautiful play and a complete and total breakdown in the entire team’s ability to cross the ball [...]

If you ever get a chance to attend a game in France, do it! There are about 15,000 Scotsmen running around Paris in kilts in advance of tonight’s game. It’s highly entertaining. I’m staying in a tiny hotel within walking distance of Parc des Princes and loving every second of the [...]

Show of hands as to who was thinking, 20 minutes in, “nil-nil draw.” The game didn’t have that ultra-competitive feel I expected. It was almost as if they’d decided ahead of time to keep the masses quiet by coming up with the least controversial ending. (That said, it was an interestingly rough [...]