Raymond Domenech and FFF President Jean-Pierre Escalettes were at the San Siro this week to watch Patrick Vieira in the Inter-Roma game. And since Philippe Mexès plays for Roma, they also got a chance to check out Philippe.
News reports are saying that they were less than impressed with Philippe’s double yellow, which resulted in [...]

Imagine my surprise when this headline showed up in my inbox. I had these visions of Zizou and Veronique selling off Luca and Theo to promote the game worldwide. And I’m thinking, “Wow. What an incredible sacrifice for the good of the game!”
Alas, there is apparently a dog by the same [...]

Hello Swoosh!
Hold onto your old Adidas France jersey. It’s a collector’s item now that France has signed with Nike.
Or…well, maybe not yet. But in 2011, for sure. That’s when the contract starts, and it runs through 2018. In other words, for most of the Karim Benzema/Samir Nasri/Hatem Ben Arfa years. [...]

Just a few odds and ends that don’t warrant their own posts.
Zidane fans? I found a fun site devoted to collecting photos of soccer stars, and it has several good Zidane wallpaper photos. Oh, and look! There’s some Thierry Henry ones as well. Enjoy! (I am way too [...]

Blogging rule #173: When you don’t have time to write, post marginally tasteless educational historical photos.
(Does anybody else think the bald thing is a huge improvement? I mean…um…wow. Nice cleats.)

“You always lose when your opponents score and you don’t.”
–France coach Raymond Domenech
Oh, great, Raymond. Tell the boys AFTER the game.
P.S. The photo is of Raymond signing autographs. Why does this amuse me so?
(Quote found on FootiedB.com.)

The fact that these photos keep finding me?
SO not my fault.
But once they find me, I might as well share, right?

I wanted to embed the video of the lovely Willy Sagnol to Benzema to crossbar to Henry exchange at the end of the game, but I’m having problems with the embed code, so click on this link to watch it.
While I was doing a quick google search about the title to be absolutely [...]

In case anybody’s interested, reader Kyle has given us a download link for last Wednesday’s game. My computer downloaded at between 55 and 100 kbps (is that the right measurement? probably no) and it took about 3 1/2 hours to download both halves. But the picture quality is excellent and it’s well worth [...]

First off, thanks so much for posting all of the links in the comments after the games. I’ve had African Cup of Nations going on at the World Cup Blog main page. (And I’ve also had my first experiences liveblogging. It was more fun than I expected. Now I’m probably going [...]