There are only two weeks left in the Ligue 1 season, and with the title finally in the hands of Paris Saint-Germain the focus turns to the race for the third and final Champions League place and of course the Europa League. Lille travel south to Montpellier in what is [...]
The chase for Ligue 2 football is certainly heating up in France. With only two weeks left there are still six teams fighting to join both Créteil and Metz in France’s second division. With five points separating the top two, a champion has yet to be crowned but the real point of [...]
Numerous media outlets in both France and England are reporting this morning that Lille’s 19-year-old left-back Lucas Digne is a target for Premier League side Liverpool. A product of Lille’s youth set-up, he has another three years left on his existing contract and a fee of around £8 million has [...]
Ever since he signed a permanent deal with Saint-Etienne 18 months ago, the future of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has been under the spotlight almost weekly, and with the season coming to an end the race is heating up. Saint-Etienne finished just outside the Europa League places last year, losing on the [...]
With Queens Park Rangers failing to beat Reading on Sunday, the Londoners’ fate was sealed, and Harry Redknapp’s side will start life in the Championship next season. One player who won’t be in their starting line-up come August is Frenchman Loic Remy. Bought for £8 million in January, Premier League [...]
Before Marseille played Lille last Sunday midfielder Joey Barton met with Andrew and sat down to talk about a wide range of subjects. You may have read the interview last week, but below is the VIDEO. Around 30 minutes of what was a very interesting chat. Referees, Ligue 1, Champions [...]
The headlines this weekend will be rightly filled by images and reports of Saint-Etienne’s Saturday night Coupe de la Ligue triumph in Paris, but just 15 miles south of the Stade de France there was another team celebrating last night. US Créteil-Lusitanos, after dominating France’s third division since their 2-0 [...]
After his successful “Walk to Lille” for charity, Andrew Gibney ended the journey with the promise of watching Lille OSC take on Olympique de Marseille at the Grand Stade Lille Metropole, to end an epic 10 days with a bang. What he didn’t plan on was to be sitting, on the [...]