The 2013 Women’s Champions League Final will take place this Thursday at Stamford Bridge, at 19.30 BST, 20.30 CEST. The match will be carried live by Direct 8 in France.  Tickets are on sale for a bargain price of £10, with concessions (under 18, over 65) at £5. Go go [...]

The magic of the cup is still with us, people. Two sides who could well go down to Ligue 2 at the end of the season are still in the race for silverware, and a place in the Europa League; 19th play 9th, and 18th play 8th, which has a [...]

Mayday, mayday. Four games to go, and the battle to avoid relegation enters its final phase. With PSG having already cleared a place in the trophy cabinet, the most interesting bits of the table are the rest of the top six attempting to confirm their place in Europe, and the [...]

Oh, David. Oh, David, David, David. When the attention on the anglo-centric press on Ligue 1 is mostly focussed on comparing Bad Boy Barton with Model Professional Beckham, with much fanfare for the former’s red card against Nancy (second yellow in five minutes), getting a straight red for comportement violent [...]

There are still five games to go in the Ligue 1 campaign, but a fair amount has been sorted out already: PSG are nine points clear at the top of the table; five teams are in the race for the four remaining European places*; Troyes and Brest look gone, leaving [...]

The Magic of the Cup took a bit of a knock in the last round, as only Lens remain as representatives of football outside Ligue 1. The last three amateur sides in the competition exited in the last round, so we will not see the like of last year’s final [...]

The rain was already falling at 7am, and continued throughout the day, incessant, dull. Strangely familiar. The song says that “mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun”, and as those unused to heat and sun can get carried away, basting themselves to scarlet levels when the opportunity [...]

OK, we admit, we dropped the ball a bit on this one.  First, Big Boss left it off the schedule so we didn’t get a preview up, then the brave soul who’d offered to watch the game got stuck at work.  We were kind of hoping we could just reprint [...]