First, I want to welcome Inara to the France page. A lot of you probably know Inara as the writer of the wonderful Lyon page over at The Offside. She’s going to be joining Jeff and me in covering the France team as we head into Euros.
Only a month and a [...]

Thierry Henry hasn’t had a great season this year. Nicolas Anelka hasn’t scored in twelve games.
And today Karim Benzema was carried off the field “clutching his knee.”
Lyon’s Brazil striker, Fred, was out with injury and the problems worsened when top scorer Karim Benzema left the field on a stretcher, clutching his knee, [...]

Are Nicolas Anelka and PSG a match made in heaven or what?
I adore them. They charm me. There’s a roughness and an edge and a vitality to both that I love.
Seriously, when I was in Paris in September, I came home with a PSG keychain for my son. And it’s [...]

Can you believe that Euros are less than two months away? That’s feeling painfully close.
So close that it’s time to mark our calendars for May 18 — the day that Raymond Domenech will announce the squad for Euros. Kind of.
Apparently he’s going to name more than the 23 players allowed on the roster, [...]

I’m desperately trying to figure out a way to convince my kids to go to the A’ game next Tuesday. I’ll be in Paris, so why not? I don’t think it will happen, but hey. It might, right? (Where is stade Charléty anyhow?)
Just a few thoughts on the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

I stumbled on this article when I was looking for more Sagnol news. (Of which there is none, of course. Curse this long Bundesliga winter break! Don’t they know if affects our February friendlies?)
But that’s not my point. My point is: Fullbacks. Specifically this quote, with which I [...]

Djibril Cisse has scored five goals in two games, moving himself up to sixth among Ligue 1’s top scorers after a miserable start to the season.
Nicolas Anelka just switched teams, and notched his first goal for Chelsea today. (Here’s the goal. Watch quickly, becuase these things never stay up for much more [...]