What the f*ck just happened? The Carquefou edition…

By: Magnusson | March 19th, 2008

See eight days ago, we were 2008’s team. With nly one defeat in three months and the best record in France, we seemed unstoppable, we were still looking great in three different competitions. First the Ligue 1 where we were looking mighty with eight consecuive wins, the UEFA Cup where we were supposed to just make sure our 3-1 home-lead was enough to let us go through against a russian team that should have been scored upon five or six times at least. And finally there was the Coupe de France where we picked the weakest of opponents, Carquefou, a small suburb of Nantes nobody had ever heard about before their win against Nancy. The Nancy boys were alledgedly ambushed by a small team with small ideas but great defending on a pitch that was looking more like a minefield than a football pitch.
But marseille wa warned. Marseille would be playing on the Beaujoire and make sure they left their jerseys to the different carpenters, drape salesmen, gym teachers, administrative assistants and library employees that are pretty much all fans and who were just hoping not to take 6 or 7 goals as everybody predicted.
This game was supposed to be so boring that even France Television didn’t want to show it. Come on! Nobody wants to see the little team get abused by the professionals. Especially when said professionals are just on a mission to redeem themselves in the eyes of their President and their fans.
After the St.Persburg fiasco, Pape Diouf came out strongly gainst his players. I can’t wait to read what he’ll call them tomorrow. Because, Oh! Yes! I forgot to tell you. MARSEILLE LOST AGAIN.
Yes, I’m not kidding. Marseille lost to the amateurs. the team that is struggling not to get relegated. The CFA2 team. Those guys who lost to Lorient’s B team last team. Yep these same guys.
There have been a few “collective Brain Farts” (i’ve used this expression more than the author herself now I believe), Valenciennes, Nice, Liverpool, St.Petersburg adnd now, for eternity, there will be Carquefou.
Eric Gerets gave in to all the Marseille fans who believed Cedric Carasso deserved a chance to play for his hometown team one last time. I was part of those and believe you me, his last game in a Marseille shirt will be remembered fondly. Not necessarilly by us but it will be remembered.
Gerets played Bonnart, Faty, Zubar and Krupoviesa in defense, Kaboré, Ziani and newly appointed bad boy Samir Nasri in the modfield, Zenden and his pal Cissé and his buddy Akalé up top. Seriously not out A-Team but nothing to sneeze at neither. Well we lost anyway. Even with Cana getting in at half-time, even with Ayew replacing Krupoviesa, even with all our goodwill. We were scored upon at the ninth minute. And Carquefou played better than we ever could. They played well, they played together. They’re gonna make us believe we should be watching CFA and CFA2 games soon.
I’d love to see what Eric Gerets and Pape Diouf will say tomorrow. But no excuses, they were better and wanted it more. Hopefully our fans didn’t act rowdy and were fair-play after the game.
Here’s the goal, please don’t blame Carasso, he hasn’t played in awhile and didn’t do anything bad (he didn’t do anything good either but that’s another story) after this first mistake.

The only satisfaction comes from my senegalese chauvinism. Pape Idrissa Ndoye is senegalese and just arrived at Carquefou six months ago to find a construction job. The 22 year old is pretty quick and maybe he can become one of those Cinderella stories like Piquionne and Valbuena.
Speaking of which, it’s never as obvious how much Football is more chance than real talent when you see Mathieu valbuena and before him Franck Ribéry who were both kicked out of their academies and played in CFA2 before persevering and making it into the French National Team.
Carquefou’s captain Sebastien Lepaih and a big number of his teammates were kicked out of Nantes academy, him being the only one to play professionally(3 times but still) for the canaries. Maybe this victory will show people that just because they’re not professionals doesn’t mean they don’t deserve a second look.
Peace out.