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Status Update: Diaby and Ben Arfa now friends!
By: Sarah |
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We’ve all seen the video…you know the one I’m talking about (and if you don’t its below the jump…and it is not a video displaying their awesome football skills).
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Tags: Abou Diaby, Clairefontaine, essays, fights and tantrums, flashbacks, Hatem BEN-ARFA, History, Misc..., Players, UncategorizedSports and Politics..I guess they Mix in France
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OM-PSG on the Assembly Benches
“Yah! Always the same ones who are on the bench!”
“On my mother, I am vexed!”
So When Will the OM-PSG game happen?
By: Sarah | 3 Comments
The Classico fixture which was suppose to take place yesterday was postponed due to a Swine Flu Infection that has infected at least 5 members of the PSG team and staff, including Jeremy Clement (left), Ludovic Giuly (centre) and defender Mamadou Sakho (right). For more information see our earlier coverage here and here. The match, [...]
And the Love Affair With Didier Deschamps Comes to An Abrupt End…
By: Sarah | 2 Comments
While there have been Didier Deschamps skeptics on The Offside since Day 1, the French media has basically been showering him with love and kisses since the day he was hired. Evey time time they mention him, they immediately reference his Champion’s League and World Cup glory days. The media became infatuated with [...]
A Long week.
By: Magnusson | 43 Comments
This week as long. A funeral, countless rumors, new signings and our first game of the season to finish it all off.
The Show had to go on
First off Marseille quietly bid farewell to Karim Ziani who decided very early on that he needed to leave Marseille even though he had an incredible second season. The [...]
Tags: benoit cheyrou, Didier Deschamps, Djibril Cissé, edouard cisse, essays, French Ligue 1, funeral, huntelaar, Jean-Claude Dassier, Jose Anigo, Karim Ziani, laurent bonnart, Lorik Cana, lucho gonzalez, Mamadou Niang, mamadou samassa, mathieu valbuena, Misc..., Pape Diouf, Robert Louis-Dreyfus, Ronald Zubar, Rumors, Souleymane Diawara, Steve Mandanda, taye taiwoWill Pape Diouf be our president next season?
By: Magnusson | 13 Comments
We all know how Marseille is a very popular club and how jealous of Pape Diouf a lot of people are and have become. His position is the hardest one in France without question but a lot of people would want that prestige for themselves. The president has been criticized internally for months now if [...]
Black History Month: Marius Trésor
By: Magnusson | 5 Comments
It has dawned on me a few nights ago (well I was actually told) that it was Black History Month (whatever *that* is) so I’ll try to profile a few of our more important black players from time to time.
Let’s start with one of our most symbolic alums, Marius Trésor. Marius is one of those [...]
Santos Mirasierra sentenced…
By: Magnusson | 10 Comments
On October 1st, before we lost the game to Atletico madrid, some of our fans were attacked by the Spanish Police because of the banners set up by the “Ultras” that same afternoon. Their reason was that it is forbidden to have skulls and bones insignae on banners in Spain. Problem is , they didn’t [...]
Welcome to SURFACE Magazine.
By: Magnusson | 17 Comments
SURFACE Magazine is the latest of French soccer magazines and will be more of a lifestyle publication focused on soccer. Their first issue features Lorik Cana or Mathieu Valbuena wearing respectively the gangster outift and our Champions League jersey. The pictures inside are beautiful and the articles are smart. It’s a little thin and has [...]
Our players and the holy month of Ramadan…
By: Magnusson | 2 Comments
On monday morning, around the world started the holy month of Ramadan for many muslims. the ninth month of the calendar is believed to be the month when Angel Gabriel was given the Quran and later gave it to the Prophet Muhammad. In France, there are a little less than 6 million practicing muslims and [...]
Tags: essays, French Ligue 1, Karim Ziani, Lorik Cana, Mamadou Niang, mohamed sennoun, Pape Diouf, Players, taye taiwo
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