November 2nd, 2009

Govou Drunk (Again), ♥♥Player Love♥♥, LOTS of Stadium Photos, Etc.

By: Inara |

Just some random odds and ends for you to read as you bide your time waiting for Lyon’s Champions League clash with Liverpool.

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<— Sid’s Serious Captain-y Face.
If you’re wondering why the captain’s armband showed up on Cris last Saturday, despite Sidney Govou also being on the pitch, it’s because our dear (former?) captain was seen [...]

Category: Champions League, Claude Puel, Former Lyonnais, Jean-Michel Aulas, Just for Fun, Ligue 1, Links, Lisandro Lopez, OL Féminines, OL Land/New Stadium, Pictures, Player News and Rumors, Transfers

October 24th, 2009

Nice 4 – 1 Lyon: French Comedy on the Riviera

By: Inara |

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Goals: Nice (Bagayoko 17, Cissokho o.g. 40, Hellebuyck 69, Remy 74), Lyon (Ederson 84).
Warnings: Nice (Coulibaly 5), Lyon (Cissokho 21, Gonalons 53, Reveillere 77)

The entire match condensed into a single photo.

Ugh. Not only did Lyon lose to Nice for the [...]

Category: Claude Puel, Ligue 1, Video

Tags: Claude Puel, Ligue 1, Lyon, Nice, Suckiness, Video

October 9th, 2009

Random News and Updates

By: Inara |

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With World Cup qualifiers about to take place, there isn’t too much happening at club level. But there are a few articles and updates that caught my eye.
The biggest news is the medical update on Bafetimbi Gomis. Two days ago at Guingamp, Gomis collapsed during practice with the France squad. He was out for a [...]

Category: Champions League, Claude Puel, Former Lyonnais, Internationals, Jean-Michel Aulas, Just for Fun, OL Féminines, OL Land/New Stadium, Pictures, Player News and Rumors, Team News and Rumors, Transfers, Video

July 29th, 2009

Another Striker is Nice, But…

By: Inara |

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Lyon are continuing their spending spree by shelling out €13m for St. Etienne’s Bafetimbi Gomis (plus another €2m in incentives). His cool name and awesome hair will be further augmenting Lyon’s ever expanding strikeforce. I’ll have a post featuring relevant information and stats about him once he has his press conference, but for now, let’s [...]

Category: Claude Puel, Player News and Rumors, Transfers

Tags: Bafetimbi Gomis, Claude Puel, Lyon, Player News and Rumors, St. Etienne, Team News and Rumors, Transfers

February 11th, 2009

Newsies For This Week

By: Inara |

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I plan to post a much longer entry tomorrow about Lyon’s winter transfer season (or lack thereof), but for now, here are some other things that I wanted to mention that don’t deserve their own post.

First off, it’s INTERNATIONAL TIME!!! That’s good news and bad. Good because some players get some rest, bad because [...]

Category: Claude Puel, Internationals, Jean-Michel Aulas, Player News and Rumors, Team News and Rumors, Transfers

February 1st, 2009

Alain Perrin is Coming Home!

By: Inara |

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Sort of, anyway.
Alain Perrin took over management of St. Etienne last November, after the last derby that took place in August. Today will be bittersweet for him because he won more trophies than any other OL manager (four), led the squad to their first ever domestic double, and despite a horrible injury crisis, was a [...]

Category: Claude Puel, Former Lyonnais, Jean-Michel Aulas, Ligue 1, Player News and Rumors, Team News and Rumors

Tags: Alain Perrin, Claude Puel, Former Lyonnais, Jean-Michel Aulas, Ligue 1, Lyon, Player News and Rumors, St. Etienne, Team News and Rumors

January 12th, 2009

Just a depressing post, really.

By: Inara |

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First things first, the last few weeks have been very hectic in my “real life” because I’ve fallen behind in my research, and as a doctoral student, my adviser is not happy with me, which is why I’ve had to take a vacation from the soccer blogosphere. So you can imagine my disappointment that despite [...]

Category: Champions League, Claude Puel, French Cups (CdL, CdF, TdC), Jean-Michel Aulas, Ligue 1, Match Results, OL Féminines, Player News and Rumors, Team News and Rumors

November 12th, 2008

L’OL = LOL

By: Inara |

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If any of you read my match preview of yesterday’s Coupe de la Ligue game against Metz, you can see that I was expecting a comfortable win for my team. Not champagne football, but a solid, no-nonsense victory. But it turns out that I, along with the entire squad of Olympique Lyonnais, am now being [...]

Category: Claude Puel, French Cups (CdL, CdF, TdC), Jean-Michel Aulas, Match Results

Tags: CdF, Claude Puel, Coupe de la Ligue, Cris, Fabio Grosso, Fabio Santos, French Cups (CdL, French Cups (CdL, CdF, TdC), Jean-Michel Aulas, Juninho, Lyon suck, Match Results, Metz, TdC)

October 5th, 2008

Lyon Get Their Asses Whupped

By: Inara |

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These 3-0 losses are starting to turn into a yearly ritual. A humiliating one.
The game was so bad that Lyon’s official website posted a highlight video that was only three minutes long – usually they are around twenty minutes. Watching it, I realized why. Apart from Mickael Pagis’s three goals, not much else happened. [...]

Category: Claude Puel, Jean-Michel Aulas, Ligue 1

July 31st, 2008

Frederic Piquionne is Lyonnais, No One Really Cares

By: Inara |

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Right. So Frederic Piquionne is a Lyon player. He was nabbed for €4.5m on a four year contract from Monaco. Everyone is excited. Really.
*tumbleweeds*
Or maybe not. Umm…

A new player? What? When did this happen?

Normally there is a lot more excitement – or at least discussion – when Lyon sign a new player, but compared to [...]

Category: Claude Puel, Transfers

Tags: Claude Puel, Frederic Piquionne, I am a slave, Lyon, Monaco, St. Etienne, Transfers