It's been announced on the official site that Newcastle United have struck a sweet deal for Fabrice Pancrate. The French midfielder/stirker has secured a deal until the end of the season, after impressing Chris Hughton in his two week trial, which involved a run out for the reserves against Hartlepool United, with yours truly in [. Click to continue reading...

strong>In contrast to Chris Hughton's recent statement that he was more than happy with the squad he has leading into the festive period, it's being reported that Newcastle are interested in signing what be the latest in a line of French wingers. Apparently following in the footsteps of David Ginola and Laurent Robert, Fabrice Pancrate could [. Click to continue reading...

We think diving is as much a stain on the modern game as the next person, but it's come to the point that when someone wins a penalty the armchair fans instinctively brandish the player a liar and a cheat. Such was the case after Monday's Liverpool v Birmingham match, when Lee Carsley's lunge at David Ngog in the penalty box earned the Reds a penalty kick, a valuable point, and ultimately gave Rafa Benitez a stay of execution.

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What did UE Engordany of Andorra, FK Milano Kumanovo of Macedonia, Ankaraspor of Turkey and Grenoble of France had in common before last Sunday? They were all teams from European top divisions, who hadn't picked up a single point so far this season. And yes, there actually is a football league in Andorra.

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November 8, 2009
Stade de Gerland, Lyon
3:00 EST (21:00CET, 20:00GMT)

Sunday evening it's back to work. But hopefully, it's not one of those usual Monday morning, sloping, sluggish, I need a liter of coffee to get through the day, back to works, because aside from the heart wrenching matches against Cesspool in the CL, Lyon have been afflicted with a general malaise probably since week eight in the PSG match, and need this victory to put some pep back in their step.

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MLS on Fox Soccer Channel: New England - Chicago at 8pm. EPL on ESPN2: Spurs - Sunderland at 10am. Setanta has Manchester City - Burnley at 10am and Blackburn - Portsmouth at 6:45pm. On Fox Soccer: Aston Villa - Bolton at 10am and Wolves - Arsenal at 12:30pm. Championship on Setanta: Swansea - Cardiff at 7:45am. Click to continue reading...

French Ligue 1 big timers Paris Saint-Germain Football Club have made the novel move of working with internationally-renowned Paris cabaret Moulin Rouge for their 2010 calendar. The new PSG calendar (which can be yours for the low price of 14,95 €) features the club's players in formal attire accompanied by scantily clad members of the Moulin [. Click to continue reading...

Ivorian considers his long term future.

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Emmanuel Eboue has announced his ambition to turn out for Paris St Germain at some stage of his career.

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31/10/2009Auxerre - Montpellier ore 19.00Bordeaux - Monaco ore 19.00Boulogne - Nancy ore 19.00Grenoble - Lille ore 19.00Lens - Lorient ore 19.00Olympique Marseille - Toulouse ore 19.00Saint-Etienne - Olympique Lyonnais ore 21.0001/10/2009Nice - Le Mans ore 17.00Rennes - Valenciennes ore 17.00Sochaux - PSG ore 21. Click to continue reading...

Becks shows his expertise with "spit pieces"

The Health Protection Agency has determined that spitting could lead to the spread of the H1N1 virus and asked footballers from refraining to do that on the pitch.

''Footballers, like the rest of us, wouldn't spit indoors so they shouldn't do it on the football pitch.

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Marseille Offside gives us a clip of the post-PSG-Marseille cancellation mayhem with someone being plowed by a car. Rafa's still not out of the doghouse. (Football 365) To love and hate Diego Maradona. (Futfanatico) The world's worst tournament kicks off. (La Liga Loca) Brazil should kick back to the old model. Click to continue reading...

French Ligue 1 have become one of the strongest leagues in Europe during the last few years and it is constantly justifying its reputation. Round 10 this season was supposed to bring us the biggest derby of French football but the OM-PSG derby was postponed because two PSG players had contracted the swine flu.

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When Liverpool signed David N'Gog from PSG in 2008, most people were probably thinking he was going to be 'another for the future' that would never really make the step up from the reserves; but it seems this time Rafa has a real gem on his books for the bargain price of £1.5 million. We've seen [.. Click to continue reading...

When Liverpool signed David N'Gog from PSG in 2008, most people were probably thinking he was going to be 'another for the future' that would never really make the step up from the reserves; but it seems this time Rafa has a real gem on his books for the bargain price of £1.5 million. We've seen [.. Click to continue reading...

This has been a fantastic weekend to hate somebody and wish him ill almost everywhere around the world. As Daryl pointed out earlier, this weekend's fixture calendar was overflowing with big derbies and heated rivalries including three different flavored clasicos, inter-city and intercontinental matches. Click to continue reading...

French side locked up, stopped from playing matches The players and staff of Paris St Germain have been quarantined after three players complained they were suffering with symptoms of swine flu. Ludovic Giuly, Mamadou Sakho and Jeremy Clement have all been tested for the virus after complaining of fever, coughing and sore throats. Click to continue reading...

24/10/2009Bordeaux - Le Mans ore 19.00Boulogne - Monaco ore 19.00Grenoble - Nancy ore 19.00Nice - Olympique Lyonnais ore 19.00Saint-Etienne - Valenciennes ore 19.00Sochaux - Lorient ore 19.00Rennes - Montpellier ore 21.0025/10/2009Auxerre - Lille ore 17.00Lens - Toulouse ore 17.00Olympique Marseille - PSG ore 21. Click to continue reading...

France doesn't have a lot of local rivalries like England for example, since Lyon-Saint Etienne and Lille-Lens do not really portray all the elements of the derby. However, this country has a derby between Olympique Marseille and Paris Saint Germain, a fierce rivalry that doesn't go such a long way.

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It was quite the week for French teams in European football where Lyon showed incredible poise and Hugo Lloris certainly scored some points as the # 1 goalkeeper for France for the World Cup...it was also somewhat poetic justice to see a team Houllier successfully coached for 2 years beat Benitez's Liverpool at Anfield. Click to continue reading...

17/10/2009Auxerre - Bordeaux ore 19.00Le Mans - Boulogne ore 19.00Olympique Lyonnais - Sochaux ore 19.00Montpellier - Saint-Etienne ore 19.00Nancy - Olympique Marseille ore 19.00Valenciennes - Grenoble ore 19.00Lille - Rennes ore 21.0018/10/2009Lorient - Nice ore 17.00Monaco - Lens ore 17.00Toulouse - PSG ore 21. Click to continue reading...

French Ligue 1 returns into action after the international break and Olympique Lyon are leading the title race at the moment. Bordeaux and surprise package Montpellier are just behind the leaders, while Marseille and PSG are slowly falling behind. Monaco and Lorient are also exceeding expectations at the moment, while Toulouse, Nice and Lille are not doing as well as last season.

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Vive la Foot!

A belated Vive le Foot this week since I found myself flying to the land of Ligue 1 overnight...sadly enough I will not be able to attend the PSG -Nancy tie in Paris...but my SF correspondent will be at the Emirates scouting some Frenchies vs. Blackburn...

Boulogne lost the match of the promoted last weekend and will face a Lille side that destroyed Slavia Prague 5 - 1 in the last 15 minutes of their Europa League tie.

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Despite Massimo Busacca's finger flailing shenanigans and subsequent ban, he's got nothin' on the suddenly comically under fire Fredy Fautrel of the Ligue 1. There was a great deal of controversy last week when it was reported that Jean-Michel Aulas, president of Lyon, has skipped on down to the referees' locker room during halftime of [. Click to continue reading...

Ligue 1 offered us 36 goals last weekend -- a huge improvement over the last few weeks.
Lisandro Lopez: "I am not a star."
Auxerre tied St Etienne to a draw last week and seem to gain confidence. Meanwhile, no sign of Grenoble getting a point yet. Click to continue reading...

26/09/2009Auxerre - Grenoble ore 19.00Lorient - PSG ore 19.00Monaco - Saint-Etienne ore 19.00Montpellier - Boulogne ore 19.00Nancy - Sochaux ore 19.00Valenciennes - Olympique Marseille ore 19.00Olympique Lyonnais - Toulouse ore 21.0027/09/2009Le Mans - Rennes ore 17.00Lille - Nice ore 17.00Bordeaux - Rennes ore 21. Click to continue reading...

Good morning, my wonderful readers! Sadly, I won't be around for most of today, so until 8 PM tonight, I'll be clueless as to how this game turns out (though naturally I expect - no, demand - that OL crank out a win). Remember, with Bordeaux and Marseille winning their respective games yesterday, anything less than three points will be a tough blow to Lyon's race for the title, even this early in the season.

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AC Milan boss Leonardo has admitted Brazilian Ronaldino is not the player he once was, but insists the former Barcelona man is still very much in his plans.

The 29-year-old won the Ballon d'Or back in 2005 but has yet to match the standards he set in his early years at the Nou Camp in his time in Milan.

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We're not there yet, but we are getting closer. The Bundesliga, Eredivisie and Ligue Un all reached the point in the season where last season's results have dropped out of the calculations for the WCR Top 25. For clubs from England, Spain, Italy and Portugal, results for last season still count because all clubs in each of those domestic leagues have yet to play five matches, but we are getting close.

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MLS on TeleFutura: New England - Chivas USA at 3pm. EPL on Setanta: Birmingham City - Aston Villa at 7am. On Fox Soccer Channel: Fulham - Everton at 11am. Bundesliga on GolTV: Cologne - Schalke 04 at 11:30am. ESPN2 has a La Liga game scheduled for 11am, teams not available at press time. La Liga on GolTV: Xerex - Athletico Bilbao at 3pm. Click to continue reading...

I don't know about you guys, but I've used this international break to take a step away from football before things get all crazy again. With our first CL group stage match against Fiorentina around the corner, the next couple of weeks promise to be really busy. But before we can even think about Europe, we have to take care of Lorient tomorrow.

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12/09/2009Le Mans - Olympique Marseille ore 19.00Lille - Sochaux ore 19.00Olympique Lyonnais - Lorient ore 19.00Montpellier - Lens ore 19.00Nancy - Toulouse ore 19.00Valenciennes - Boulogne ore 19.00Bordeaux - Grenoble ore 21.0013/09/2009Auxerre - Nice ore 17.00Rennes - Saint-Etienne ore 17.00Monaco - PSG ore 21. Click to continue reading...

Por estas horas, la gran noticia del fútbol europeo pasa por Francia, más precisamente en la Ligue 1. Tras una temporada de mucho nivel y 38 emocionantes jornadas, el Girondins de Burdeos acabó definitivamente con la monarquía del Lyon al consagrarse campeón. Muchos equipos estuvieron cerca de llevarse el titulo, desde el Marsella hasta el Rennes, pasando por el PSG, Lille, Toulouse, entre otros, Click to continue reading...

Christophe Jallet celebtates his goal against Lille

It was a weekend of big matches with champions Bordeaux taking on runners-up Marseille and fallen giants Lyon against a team who have put together some impressive results so far Nancy. Â A few changes were made overall to the Ligue 1 table, with newly promoted Montpellier rocketing into 4th place and Lille slipping into the relegation zone all after 4 matches played.

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The younger PSG fans can't remember the last title, while the older ones are on the verge of forgetting about it. The famous club from Paris touched the bottom few seasons ago and they were even in danger of relegation, but in the end it all turned out well.

Will this be their year?

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Don't laugh. Despite his past failures (2001 and 2005 with Bayer Leverkusen, 2009 with Bayern Munich) Landon Donovan is clearly talented enough to play his football in Europe. Somewhere in Europe anyway. The only question is: Where? Donovan has recently been linked with Livorno in Italy, and with PSG in France. Click to continue reading...