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 [...]

The tortured artist of the number 10 shirt is a so-what tired cliché at this point in the 21st century. The image projected by these magical players has changed dramatically since the days of the solitary artists of bygone years. The likes of Iniesta, Ozil and David Silva are no [...]

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 [...]

These clips are available to all viewers in Europe (except France & Spain), Sub Saharan Africa and Australasia. Excluded in North Africa, Asia and N&S America. WEEK 32 Sunday 14 April LYON v TOULOUSE NICE v SOCHAUX LILLE v MARSEILLE Saturday 13 April EVIAN v RENNES BORDEAUX v MONTPELLIER LORIENT [...]

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 [...]

Long after the fans had all left the Estadio du Luz this evening, you could still see the dim of the floodlights illuminate the Lisbon skyline. Although the game was long over you could still see the Bordeaux players trying their best to put the ball in the back of [...]

In the end it was a mixed Thursday night for the French sides in Europa League action. Two teams were reduced to one, but it could so easily have been both teams through to the next round. Moussa Dembele’s injury-time strike against Lyon levelled the scores on the night but [...]

It was certainly unglamourous, but mission accomplished as Bordeaux grabbed an away goal and take Dynamo Kiev back to France with a 1-1 draw. Although my prediction was correct, it was touch-and-go for a long time as lady luck certainly aided the visitors in this game. Gusev, Yarmolenko and Haruna [...]