Status Update: Diaby and Ben Arfa now friends!

By: Sarah | No Comments

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).  

Category: History, Misc..., Players, essays

Tags: Abou Diaby, Clairefontaine, essays, fights and tantrums, flashbacks, Hatem BEN-ARFA, History, Misc..., Players, Uncategorized

Sports and Politics..I guess they Mix in France

By: Sarah | 5 Comments

OM-PSG on the Assembly Benches

“Yah!  Always the same ones who are on the bench!”

“On my mother, I am vexed!”

Category: French Ligue 1, French Natinal Team, History, Misc..., Players, essays

Tags: Comic, Dominique Tian, essays, French Ligue 1, French Natinal Team, Hatem BEN-ARFA, History, Misc..., Players, Politics, psg, Rama Yade, Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin

Say Hello to the new Coach…

By: Magnusson | 13 Comments

Category: French Ligue 1, History

Tags: Didier Deschamps, French Ligue 1, History

Erik Gerets leaving Marseille…

By: Magnusson | 13 Comments

It’s been creeping on us for a little while now. The last time our owner, SpongeBOb (Robert Louis-Dreyfus), came out in the press he came out with guns blazing saying he would fire Gerets if Marseille didnt win the Championship. Gerets took it exceptionnally hard and apparently refused to negociate ccording to the local press.
Now [...]

Category: History, Rumors

Tags: erik geret, History, Jose Anigo, Pape Diouf, Robert Louis-Dreyfus, Rumors

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 [...]

Category: French Ligue 1, French Natinal Team, History, Players, essays

Tags: black history month, essays, French Ligue 1, French Natinal Team, History, jean-pierre adams, Marius Tresor, michel hidalgo, Players

Saturday morning MEGA update…

By: Magnusson | 4 Comments

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 [...]

Category: African Cup of Nations, French Ligue 1, French Natinal Team, History, MERCATO, Players, Rumors, UEFA Champions League

Tags: African Cup of Nations, alain boghossian, andre ayew, Bakary Koné, Bernard Lama, bixente lizarazu, christian karembeu, Didier Deschamps, diomede, Djibril Cissé, Dugarry, Ederson, el amin erbate, Fabien Barthez, franck leboeuf, frederic antonetti, French Ligue 1, French Natinal Team, hatem benarfa, hilaire munoz, History, johan micoud, Jose Anigo, julien rodriguez, Karim Ziani, Laurent Blanc, Letizi, Lilian THURAM, Lionel Charbonnier, Mamadou Niang, marcel desailly, mathieu valbuena, maurice cohen, MERCATO, modeste mbami, Nicolas ANELKA, Pape Diouf, Players, Robert Louis-Dreyfus, robert pirès, Rumors, Samir Nasri, Thierry HENRY, Trezeguet, UEFA Champions League, Ulrich RAME, Vieira, vincent candela, youri djorkaeff, zinedine zidane

And six months ago…

By: Magnusson | 3 Comments

Six Months ago, we were finishing a great season with a qualification to the Champions League and a final of the Coupe de France that we lost in the penalties to Sochaux. Three of our players were called up by Uncle Ray Ray for the Euro qualifiers (Franck Ribery, Samir Nasri and Djibril Cissé). We [...]

Category: French Ligue 1, History, Players

Tags: Djibril Cissé, franck ibery, French Ligue 1, History, Players, Samir Nasri

Der neue König von Bayern…

By: Magnusson | 8 Comments

Little Francky Ribery has gone a long way. NOt even six months after having left us this summer, Kiki has been killing them out thetre in Germany. We’ve seen the videos, we know they love him. He’s on his way to become the most beloved “Französisch” ever. Well maybe not ever but in a [...]

Category: History, Players

Tags: Franck RIBERY, History, Players

Ex-Coach Rolland Courbis gets jail time, owner Robert Louis-Dreyfus gets probation…

By: Magnusson | 1 Comment

The affair of the Marseille transfers was a big tabou among the fans, the staff and administration in the Marseille organization. For the past few years, The principal share holder and the ex-coach have been under scrutiny from the media and prosecuted as well as ten other club officials from the 1997-1999 era.
During that two [...]

Category: History, Misc...

Tags: blanc, Dugarry, History, Jose Anigo, Misc..., Olympique de marseille, OM, Pape Diouf, Ravanelli, RLD, Robert Louis-Dreyfus, Rolland Courbis

A brief History in “Classicos”….

By: Magnusson | 4 Comments

Tonight, The Parc des Princes in Boulogne will host the “Classico” of the Championnat for the twenty ninth time since the 1971/1972 season. Marseille and Pparis are the two biggest cities in France, both demographically and footballistically. Their rivalries go far beyond the frontieres of the sport. Their rivalries epitomize an ancient problem in this [...]

Category: French Ligue 1, History

Tags: Arrache, Ayew, Beye, Bonnart, Camara, Cana, Cheyrou, Cissé, classico, Faty, Fiorèse, French Ligue 1, Givet, Gragnic, Hamel, History, Krstic, L. NDiaye, Mandanda, Marseille, MBami, Moussilou, Nasri, Niang, OM, Oruma, psg, Rodriguez, Taiwo, Valbuena, Zenden., Ziani, Zubar