July 2nd, 2009

NE M’EN VOULEZ PAS. APRES TOUS, C’EST REAL MADRID!

By: John |

16 Comments

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Don’t hold-it against me. After all, it’s Real Madrid!

Category: Karim Benzema, Player News and Rumors, Team News and Rumors, Transfers

February 24th, 2009

Lyon 1 - 1 Barca: I’m Not Giving Up Hope, Dammit

By: Inara |

31 Comments

I’ll keep this pretty short since almost everything that needed to be said has been discussed in the comments of the previous post. Here are just a few thoughts I had about the game:
1. It was a mistake to write Lyon off.
Going into the match were predictions of doom, with many expecting a resounding [...]

Category: Champions League, Fabio Grosso, Juninho, Karim Benzema, Match Results

Tags: Barcelona, Champions League, Cris, Fabio Grosso, Jean-Alain Boumsong, Juninho, Kader Keita, Karim Benzema, Lionel Messi, Lyon, Match Results, Team News and Rumors

February 11th, 2009

Newsies For This Week

By: Inara |

12 Comments

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, Fabio Grosso, Internationals, Jean-Michel Aulas, Karim Benzema, Player News and Rumors, Team News and Rumors, Transfers

January 12th, 2009

Just a depressing post, really.

By: Inara |

49 Comments

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, Karim Benzema, Ligue 1, Match Results, OL Féminines, Player News and Rumors, Team News and Rumors

October 22nd, 2008

Super Short Review

By: Inara |

22 Comments

I know I normally do a post match write up after CL matches, but I’m running short of time and won’t be able to do the usual photo and video fest. Plus most of what needed to be said has already been posted in the comments of this thread. So here are some additional thoughts:

1. [...]

Category: Champions League, Jean II Makoun, Karim Benzema, Team News and Rumors

Tags: Anthony Reveillere, Champions League, Cris, Ederson, Fabio Grosso, Fred, Hugo Lloris, Jean I, Jean II Makoun, Jean-Alain Boumsong, Jeremy Toulalan, Karim Benzema, Lyon, Miralem Pjanic, Steaua, Team News and Rumors

October 15th, 2008

Lyon Go Chinese, the Ladies Crush Arsenal, and Toulalan Gets Promoted

By: Inara |

17 Comments

Remember how I said that China were becoming Lyon’s new best friends? Well, it looks like Aulas takes this BFF business seriously because today Lyon launched a Chinese version of their official website, thanks to a partnership with TitanSport, a Chinese sports media giant.

Pretty soon OL will be signing token Chinese players a la [...]

Category: Internationals, Jean II Makoun, Jean-Michel Aulas, Karim Benzema, OL Féminines, Player News and Rumors, Team News and Rumors

October 11th, 2008

Foto: Together Again

By: Inara |

18 Comments

It must have been quite a reunion for the 2Bs.

Category: Former Lyonnais, Just for Fun, Karim Benzema, Pictures

Tags: Former Lyonnais, France National Team, Hatem Ben Arfa, Jeremy Toulalan, Just for Fun, Karim Benzema, Pictures

October 9th, 2008

Random Nuggets

By: Inara |

7 Comments

It’s international week, so things are rather quiet on the Lyon front. Here’s what’s been going on:

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Fabio Grosso is back in training and is expected to play against Lille on October 18th. This is good news because if he does well, he play against Steaua a few days later. Kader Keita is also training normally, [...]

Category: Fabio Grosso, Former Lyonnais, Internationals, Jean II Makoun, Jean-Michel Aulas, Karim Benzema, Ligue 1, OL Féminines, OL Land/New Stadium, Player News and Rumors, Team News and Rumors, Transfers

October 5th, 2008

Lyon Get Their Asses Whupped

By: Inara |

28 Comments

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, Karim Benzema, Ligue 1