REACTION FROM FRANCE PLZ!!

LES MERDE   

"SHAME!"

"Clumsy & Naiive"

"The more things change, the more they stay the same!"

What you're expect pretty much. They were terrible!

and i really thought lois saha would be the answer to all frances problems

how come gourcuff is suspended?  i thought he was one of the ones who didnt do anything wrong and was a bullying victim of ribery et al

Even the teachers bullied 'that kid' at school tbf

Gourcuff was sent off in the last pool game at the WC. Stright red = automatic 1 game suspension.

If they suspended everyone bar Gourcuff then it'd only get worse for him.

Barca 0-2 Hercules

26 mins to go though. Probably finish 8-2.

Is masch playing?

He was for the first half at least Gave away a daft freekick which Hercules scored their first from, lucky not to be sent off, got subbed off for Xavi at half time.

Final score was 2-0

Unbelievable Jeff. Barca just didn't really seem too arsed about scoring.

When you're facing Noe Pamarot at the back you don't have a choice in the matter

Real Madrid play some dire fucking football :yawn:

Would love it, LOVE IT, if Maureen gets sacked after 5 games 

I dont care if it makes me bitter or whatever, I am desperate for Mourinho to fail hard.

Dissapointed with Barca there, worried that theyve dissapeared up their own arses in the style of Arsenal tbh.

Valencia 

Sell their best players and have a flying start to the season.

10 THIS
20 GOTO 10

Opening day they were pitiful. Gameweek 5 St. Etienne go to Toulouse and win 0-1. They are now unbeaten in 4 and up to 3rd. Saint Etienne we salute you!

Lens, down at the foot of the table, welcomed a Lille team who have generally played well but were stuck on 4 draws. Lille scored first on 23, Gervinhio netting before the match started heating up. Some very patchy refereeing saw a blatent handball by a Lille player go unpunished only for Len's Roudet to get red carded for ironically applauding the ref for giving one against them. In the ensuing handbags at 10 paces Bedimo appears to attack Cabaye but none of the officials see it and the ref does his best to ignore everyone and allow them to calm down without any intervention. It's quite bizarre.

When it all finally blows over he brandishes yellows to Debuchy & Jemaa, one from each team and blithely waves play on. Half time is blown up 3 minutes later and off they go. No sooner are they back on the pitch for the 2nd hamf but Lille's Debuchy scythes through Jemaa and the striken Lens player appeals for a yellow. Our trusty ref does indeed take out the yellow but it's for the Lens player's appeals for an opponent to be booked rather than for the rash challenge. Trailing 0-1 and down to 9 in the first minute of the second half, you'd understand if Lens gave up but, to their credit they battled back and even equalised on 61'. Unfortunatly, Lille took advantage of the 2-man difference and knocked in 3 in the last 10 minutes to take the points.

Auxerre drew 1-1 at home to Caen, El-Arabi scoring the equaliser for the promoted team in the 90' minute.

Rennes beat Sochaux 2-1 at home to move into second.

Poor Arles-Avignon visited the capital and got stonked 4-0 by PSG.

Lyon Drew at home 1-1 to Valenciennes while Montpellier lost 1-2 at home to 10-man Nancy. Brest and Lorient drew 0-0.

Marseilles looked to get things going for their season but came up against a solid Monaco side (will the real Monaco please stand up?) Valbuena, fresh off his starring role against Bosnia last Tuesday, scored the first equaliser after Niculae put the principality in front on 15’.  Park Chu Young put the Prince’s men back in front only for Adriano to score an own goal and leave things all square in the Velodrome.

The final game pitted Nice against Bordeaux as the Girodins desperately struggle to get some sort of semblance of organisation going. Unfortunatly they lost 2-1 with Nice’s second and Bordeaux’s consolation both scored in the 94’. They are still 3rd last and just behind fellow CL team Auxerre in 4th last. Marsailles are only a point ahead up in 13th and Lyon is just ahead of Auxerre on Goal difference. Only Montpellier (5th) and Rennes (2nd) from last year’s top 5 are currently in the top half of the table.

Doncaster vs Leeds on Sky Sports 3 right now

upsets all round this weekend

madrid drew and ronaldo was shocking again which is always nice to see

inter lost 1-0 in the last minute to roma, they were the better team though

watching barca now, theyre drawing at half time

M'con Barca!

Inter lost? ZONAL ROTATIONAL MARKING

Missed last week and don't have a huge amount of time to write up this week but St. Etienne took the lead of Ligue 1 for the first time in 28 years last week with some stylish goals before defending that lead away to hated rivals Lyon last night. A very soft free kick just outside the Lyon box gave Payet his chance to score his 7th in 11 shots on goal so far this season and he duly provided the only goal of the game.

Lyon still in the dumps; Saint Etienne haven't been so high since Platini still played for them.

just watching inter

eto'o is such a ridiculously good player 

aquilanis a bit peripheral but is looking ok

Forgot about that match 

I see that it finished 0-0 though, not too gutted.

it was alright tbf, both sides had a go, that krasic of juve looks like a really useful player

bit galling seeing aquilani even though he wasnt particularly good and i totally understood letting him go at the time just seems annoying now 



didnt barca draw again?  come on ffs.  should have never sold eto'o

Aye, 1-1 t'was. They were xavi and villa-less tbf, still, bad result.

Anyone watching Spain vs Lithuania?

Fernando Llorente Torres 

i'd have been ridiculously erect if we had signed him like the rumours were saving.

Ok, ok! THE GREAT FRENCH LIGUE 1 UPDATE !!!

Breakdown team by team as the stand from game day 7 going forward:

St. Etienne (1)

Toulouse (2)

Rennes (3)

Caen (4)

Sochaux (5)

Lille (6)

Nice (7)

Marsailles (8)

PSG (9)

Monaco (10)

Brest (11)

Montpellier (12)

Bordeaux (13)

Valenciennes (14)

Nancy (15)

Lorient (16)

Lyon (17)

Lens (18)

Auxerre (19)

Arles-Avignon (20)

New League Table

Brest 

I'm going to get sacked now 

Thanks Zi, that was an excellent and interesting read.  

i seem to remember somebody promising a french league update, naming no names.

Winter break..... 

Sorry DDA, I came back to do the Cup weekend and discovered that I'd missed out 3 games from the end of the Autumn session. Here we go:
 
League table when we left it after gameweek 16:

Gameweek 17:


Gameweek 18:

Gameweek 19:

This leaves the table after 19 games as follows:

League summary:

Ah, the Cup !

You expect some upsets in the cup, or rather, you hope to see them but don’t really expect it, especially not for your team. France may not have a Howard Webb at OT equivalent but it did have a seismic cup weekend. Gentlemen, I give you:

THE HALL OF SHAME:

And the rest:

In the next round:

Thanks Zi, interesting as always 

auxerre and monaco 

makes our northampton result look ok.

isnt lower league teams doing well in cups a bit more common in france?





in other world footie news : messi winning the player of the year.  Whilst he possibly was the best player, surely it should have gone to Xavi ( Dont really see the argument for iniesta other than scoring the final goal, no way has he been as good as xavi or messi this year overall)   winning the world cup and being basically as good as messi for barca, makes you wonder if messis going to win like 8 of the next 10 or something.

also didnt rilly see the argument for sneijder, its player of the year not player of january to july.

Anyone see the voting list? Sort of interesting...kind of.

Well the Dominica captain whose third choice vote was invalid is anyway 

the system can lead to weirdness with some coaches from PROPER shit countries not really knowing anything about world footie, i remember one year michael owen got loads of votes even though he'd been injured most of the year and had scored about 7 goals