

OL Land/New Stadium
Fabio Grosso Bitchslaps a Player, Plus Other Lyon Nuggets
By: Inara |Fabio Grosso’s week isn’t getting any better. Last weekend, he was verbally abused by Strasbourg coach Jean-Marc Furlan for being a “piece of macaroni shit.” Today, during Lyon’s 2-2 draw against Caen, Grosso was sent off, the third Lyon player to be red carded this year. Apparently, Grosso - who had already received a yellow [...]
Lyon Among Top Ten Future “Super-Stadiums”
By: Inara |This morning, Forbes published a list of the top ten “Super-Stadiums” that are in the process of being built. Of the ten, four of them will be football stadiums, and only two of them will be located outside the United States, the home to all things grand and excessive.
The mother ship has landed.
Lyon’s new [...]
Pretty Stadium Pictures…and a Video Too!
By: Inara |Hey, just because it’s January doesn’t mean that the only thing Lyon care about is the mercato! At least Aulas hasn’t forgotten. Project OL Land is going full speed ahead. Today, he presented more stadium information at a press conference, and even more interesting, the results of weeks of polling in the Decines area, where [...]
More Stadium News (and Pics!)
By: Inara |Anytime I get depressed about something related to Lyon, I look at the artistic renderings of the new stadium. It’s such a pick-me-upper.
Today, Lyon unveiled the official website of Project OL Land, which will feature press releases, news, important information, and of course, a lot of high-res pictures. According to the new information, the [...]
2006/2007 Financial Results
By: Inara |Today, OL Groupe published information on the club’s economic situation for the 2006/2007 season. And naturally, it’s tres tres positive. If you want to read the report in its entirety, go here. But since I adore math and numbers so much, I will offer you guys a much more condensed and easier to understand overview. [...]
Stadium Update
By: Inara |This is me, pretending that last night never happened. As Pride of Lyon pointed out, there are some things to smile about this morning.
Last week, I posted some information on Lyon’s new stadium project. Today (perhaps because Aulas thought the fans needed some reassurance that we weren’t headed to Ligue 2), the official website posted [...]
New Stadium Plans Unveiled - Sort Of
By: Inara |On Thursday, June 6, Gerard Collomb, Mayor of Lyon and Blogger Extraordinaire, presented “Project OL Land” to Lyon town officials.
Unfortunately, this was not a public presentation (that takes place on September 24), but some sketchy information about the new stadium has been published on OL’s website.
First of all, the Stade de Gerland (40,494 usable seats), [...]
What Will It Take For Lyon to Become a Big Club?
By: Inara |An excellent article was published on Sportsvox which asked whether Lyon fulfilled the criteria of being a “big European club.” It’s in French, so I thought I’d list the main points here in English, with some of my own comments. Let’s go over it, shall we?
Let’s Talk About Money
By: Inara |This post is about money.
But before I get carried away, a warning: what follows is an in depth look into the economic side of Olympique Lyonnais. As a scientist-to-be, I love numbers and percentages, and I’m curious about where Lyon’s money comes from (beside Roman Abramovich’s wallet). So if you have no interest in [...]






