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An Englishman or three in Lille
Oct. 25 | Michael Miles takes us on a Champions league journey across the Channel. LOSC v Inter Milan – October 2011 Lyon have, without doubt, been the most successful French team of the millennium, while Paris Saint-Germain and Marseille remain the country’s...
Jeux Sans Frontières
Aug. 10 | Around six months ago I was made aware of a challenge. Now I love a challenge, especially one regarding football. But this one was formed on such a wonderful cause I could do nothing but throw my small website weight behind it. The idea? To visit...
What goes around, comes around
Jul. 6 | Cast your mind back 111 years. The date is 20th September 1900. The place, The Vélodrome de Vincennes in the south east of Paris. In front of a crowd of approximately 500 locals the Great British football team had just beaten their French counter...
Potsdam blown away by vent de la France
May. 27 | “The women’s game in England has probably never had a higher profile than it does at the moment. The national team reached the quarter finals of the last World Cup in 2007, and were runners up in the last European Championships, two years ago....
Is it Nice or is it Nice?
Nov. 17 | Winter in England means the realisation that West Ham aren’t going to challenge for any honours as normally by the time the yellow ball comes out on the 1st November they are out of the Carling Cup and have already given up the hope of a European...
Wish You Were Here Part 3 – Too Bloody Right McClown – Zurich and Bern
Jun. 13 | For a copy of this post in MP3 format Listen to this episode, go to Podcast at Podbean.com or subscribe at Itunes.com Zurich – 13th June 2008 – Italy v Romania In my years of watching football all around the Europe there are a number of countries...
Paris, Bloody Paris, why is it always in Paris!
Mar. 27 | Late in 2007 the FA announced that England would play a friendly against one of the qualifiers of Euro2008. They had announced a game already in November against the old enemy, Germany, and having played Netherlands just a year previously it was a toss...
How can a slag heap be the most popular Tourist destination – Welcome to Lens!
Sep. 27 | France is a beautiful country (apart from Paris, but more about that one later). Some of the most historic and beautiful places in France have short names. Lyon, Nice, Nimes, Tours and Lille all come to mind. So what image does Lens strike up to the...
Nearly bye bye Brian in Nantes
Sep. 20 | Three weeks into the Rugby World Cup and England’s campaign was in tatters. They had started with a wimper against USA, been embarrassed by South Africa and now faced a do or die game against Samoa who had started the tournament in a worse situation...
