

French Natinal Team
Saturday morning MEGA update…
By: Magnusson |I promised myself I wouldn’t make this a habit but a lot happened this week IRL (In Real Life for all you World of Warcraft fansd out there) so I didn’t get enough time to post a thing on here.
Arsenal finally gets Samir Nasri.
First of all, the latest news comes from France Football and is [...]
Raymond Domenech stays on…
By: Magnusson |This just in, Raymond Domenech will continue to be the French National Team manager. It seemed obvious when you saw the declarations these past few days, but still, WTF?
Get ready to continue seeing a boring French team. When you see how European football has chenged during this Euro, the time of Aimé Jacquet is over [...]
Pape Diouf: “They hate each other? It’s hardly news…”
By: Magnusson |I was watching last night’s 100% Euro with Pape Diouf as a guest - Sidebar, for anyone wondering, Estelle still hasn’t talked about the proposal.
So Pape Diouf was there and talked about the different files and players Marseille has been following. He confirmed that there was a deal done with Bakary Koné and that all [...]
Three Marseillais in Raymond Domenech’s 30…
By: Magnusson |Three of our players made the cut in Raymond Domenech’s list of 30 (That’s the first surprise, not 29, 30). Samir Nasri, Djibril Cissé and Steve Mandanda will be at Clairefontaine for at least the next two weeks and on May 28th, we’ll know if they’ll be in Switzerland and Austria this summer. A lot [...]
Valbuena and four others called up…
By: Magnusson |After the humiliations of the past week, a few Marseillais received some good news this afternoon. Steve Mandanda, Gaël Givet, Samir Nasri, Mathieu Valbuena and Djibril Cissé have been called up in the French National team to play for either the A Team against England or the A’ Team against Mali. We’ll see which [...]
Franck Ribery, French Player of the Year…
By: Magnusson |Two weeks after the Ballon d’Or that went to Kakà, France Football gives a trophy to the French Player of the Year. And after many years of Thierry Henry domination(5 trophies and four in a row from ‘03 to ‘06), this year it rightfully went to Franck Ribery for his outstanding performances for Marseille [...]
Euro 2008, The case for Steve Mandanda…
By: Magnusson |Incredible, magnificent, brilliant, glorious, splendid, there has been a lack of superlatives lately to qualify the very impressive outings of young Steve Mandanda as our goalkeeper. There has been unanimous praise from all over the country and might I say, the World. The kid has been impressing everybody and poor Cédric carasso may never be [...]
There can only be one Olympique…
By: Magnusson |Great! Just what we needed! The heavyweight of the Ligue1 if ever there was one. L’Olympique Lyonnais will be receiving L’Olympique de Marseille in what will be, no matter how low our ranking is right now, THE most talked about and watched match of the weekend if not of the season. The two Olympiques are [...]
Samir Nasri back on French National Team…
By: Magnusson |Raymond Domenech gave his list of players that will play against Morocco and Ukraine a little later this month. The good news for Marseille is that Samir Nasri is back in. Neither Gaël Givet nor Djibril Cissé are in but that was predictable given our lackluster season. Julien Rodriguez will have to be as good [...]







