Share Article | Comments Off Arsenal, Croatia, Davor Suker, France, Real Madrid, Sevilla, West Ham, World Cup Friday, January 25, 2013 at 9:12 PM | MORE ON THIS BLOG: Top Ten 
France - The home of the Eifel Tower, fine wine and football. French players have been a huge part of English football for a number of years now, from the Arsene Wenger days when almost his entire squad wore a berret and cycled to training with a ring of garlic around their necks, to Alain Pardeux assembling his squad with the biggest, meanest Frenchmen that there is.
Share Article | Comments Off Arsenal, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Everton, France, Ligue 1, Manchester City, Manchester United, Tottenham, pPremier League Saturday, January 19, 2013 at 2:16 AM | MORE ON THIS BLOG: Not too Xabi The holding midfield position is one that is ofte
n overlooked. Although it may not be the most glamorous of jobs on the pitch, it is essential to a successful team. A defence often needs a helping hand, that's where a holding midfielder comes in, picks up the pieces, breaks up play. As I said not the most glamorous of jobs, but one that is vital.
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After trying to recruit him in the summer, Newcastle have finally secured the signing of France international right back Mathieu Debuchy.
Share Article | Comments Off Alan Pardew, Champions League, Euro 2012, Europa League, France, Iceland, Laurent Blanc, Ligue 1, Lille, Mathieu Debuchy, Newcastle United, Premier League Saturday, November 17, 2012 at 2:03 PM | MORE ON THIS BLOG: DutchArse 
Throughout the summer Rennes midfielder Yann M'Vila was very much hot property. A young versatile and ferocious defensive midfielder he was on many Premier League clubs wish lists.
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I didn't know that beach football was played competitively until I stumbled across this video. Then the penny dropped: I didn't know anything about it because a) I live in England. Beach football is an alien concept as a result of b) there being no sunshine or anything resembling summer.
Share Article | Comments Off Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, France, Switzerland Saturday, November 10, 2012 at 10:30 PM | MORE ON THIS BLOG: North End Galactico, Video 
Having just been dropped by Juventus for twice turning up late for training, Paul Pogba needs to ensure his attitude does not override his potential.
Share Article | Comments Off France, Inter Milan, Juventus, Manchester United, Paul Pogba, Serie A, Sir Alex Ferguson Wednesday, October 17, 2012 at 4:40 PM | MORE ON THIS BLOG: The Panenka, Video 
It may seem like stating the obvious but Olivier Giroud’s dramatic late equaliser to give France a deserved point against an all-conquering Spain side may just be looked upon as one of Arsenal’s most important moments of the season.
Thursday, September 13, 2012 at 12:39 AM | MORE ON THIS BLOG: The 12th man 
If I had a pound for every time a commentator or pundit compared Abou Diaby to Patrick Vieira I would be a substantially richer man. You can hardly blame people for making the comparison, both played a similar role at Arsenal, both have a similar mountainous build and both are French internationals. But until recently, I have always sneered at the comparison. After all Patrick Vieira is one of the greatest Arsenal players of all time and Abou Diaby plays so irregularly it can be easy to forget that he is an Arsenal player.
Share Article | Comments Off Abou Diaby, Arsenal, Arsene Wenger, France, Patrick Viera Tuesday, July 10, 2012 at 7:30 PM | MORE ON THIS BLOG: The Layman 
The FIFA world rankings system has come in for an awful lot of stick lately and rightly so for reasons about as numerous as the number of times a Premier League football drops a c-bomb on the pitch.
Share Article | Comments Off England Football Team, France, Italy, Netherlands Friday, June 29, 2012 at 4:30 PM | MORE ON THIS BLOG: Le Frog 
Over the past two days, the media has had a field day criticising the French squad for not having made any progress in terms of attitude and team spirit. While it can be argued that the French camp was a bit tense over the past 3 weeks, the media is becoming more and more british for going overboard and comparing this situation with the sorry strike event that happened in Knysna.
Share Article | Comments Off France, Franck Ribery, Karim Benzema, Samir Nasri Saturday, June 16, 2012 at 7:06 PM | MORE ON THIS BLOG: Euro 2012, Footie Fun 
The fun and games all started on the 8th June, since then there's been a lot of football played, it hasn't all been pretty ... but it's got us hooked.
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The limited number of teams in the European Championships (for now) not only guarantees some quality but it also means that teams with a lot of history, and ergo rivalry, meet up quite often.
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France is very often pointed at for being late at everything, especially by the English. Only on this occasion, our neighbours up north can’t mock us as they have the same problem: the lack of quality managers being of the nationality of their own country.
