On Tuesday, the Montpellier players were tweeting photos and awestruck comments from the Veltins-Arena, which did not augur well for the match. When kick-off came, however, they were not over-awed; an initial period of Schalke possession and then they hit hard, through Cabella up the right for a beautiful strike [...]

As discussed on this week’s podcast, there were a lot of great performances in September, but only five players can be put forward for the coveted FFW Player of the Month award. Andre-Pierre Gignac was the recipient of August’s award and hasn’t scored since who will be cursed this month? MARCO VERRATTI [...]

When Lille were drawn against Bayern Munich, Valencia and BATE Borisov in the Champions League group stage, second place was the target, third place a consolation and fourth place a disaster, after two games in the group the fans are just hoping for a point. Poor league form has turned [...]

This week’s podcast starts in Valenciennes, where the northerners destroyed league leaders Marseille and asked more questions about OM’s desire to win rather than praising Daniel Sanchez side for their performance. Toulouse continue their great run with help from the excellent Ben Yedder and Bordeaus’s 2-0 win at Lyon kept [...]

Mosson plays host to the Montpellier women’s team for the first time in over two years. God bless the new TV deal. A rainy weekend turns sunny for the match, and free admission encourages a wide range of support – grizzled old men smoke, young guys tweet, children play, babies [...]

It has been yet another magical weekend in Ligue 1. 22 goals, unbeaten records smashed and managers earning a stay of execution, what else could you want….good goals? Well we’ve got them too. Frederic Antonetti had three games to have his job at Rennes and on Friday night he made [...]

Before their excellent 2-0 win against Lille, Rennes fan Bastian Leclair looked at Frederic Antonetti’s difficult position as coach of Rennes. Now French football expert Jonathan Fadugba proposes four changes that Rennes could make which could just get this club back on track. It has been a long and dark [...]

Before the start of the Ligue 1 season I decided I would make the FFW team write introductions about themselves, basically to give our readers a chance to find out more about the people who will be writing for the site this season. I suppose it is only fair that [...]