Goals (Rémy’s) and Excuses (Mine)
By: Martha | September 23rd, 2008
Where is the blogging?!
Sorry for the lack of posts, folks, I’ve been corralled into doing my civic duty on a jury, an obligation which we’ve been told could last at least through the end of next week. So, since they cruelly expect me to pay attention in court rather than fiddling with my laptop, my internets and blogging time are going to be severely limited for the next two weeks or so.
In good news, Nice advanced in the Coupe de la Ligue tonight, beating Boulogne 3-1 in the rain, with Ospina in goal and Rémy adding two more goals to his season tally. It sounds like the match was pretty dire, for the most part, but Rémy’s two late goals brightened things up and, after giving up an early goal, Ospina reportedly settled down and made a big save on a 1 v 1 in the second half.
Also, Enok Kofi Adu, one of the two teenage Ghanians who have been training with the team since camp started this summer, turned 18 this month and has signed a three-year contract with Nice; he was on the bench against Boulogne.
[I'll do my best to get something up this weekend about Rennes, and maybe a news post next week, but no promises. I know it'll be hard to carry on if I fail to come through, but I have faith in all three of you.]
ETA: It looks like Nice picked up an entirely new sponsor for the Boulogne match. Is that as weird as it seems, or is it common in France?
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As a lawyer, I would love to have you on a jury, assuming that my client was indeed not guilty.
The sponsor isn’t new, and it isn’t OGCN’s. The Coupe de la Ligue features the same set of sponsors for every match from the opening round to the final, with teams being assigned either Sponsor A (a “white goods” manufacturer this year) or Sponsor B (yet another temp agency) by lot. Previous Coupes de la Ligue have featured mobile phone operators and candy bars.
This very French twist on sponsorship began with the Coupe de France in the early 70s and actually marked the introduction of shirt sponsorship in French football. Firms like Perrier, RTL (then just a radio station) and Calberson (a trucking company) got to put their names on the clubs’ shirts for the entire competition, even though sponsors had not yet made an appearance in the league.
On the extremely unlikely chance that anyone is as obsessed by football kits as I am, may I recommend the following incomparable site, which includes drawings of the kits of every winner of the Coupe de France and the Coupe de la Ligue, as well as illustrating the year by year of the kits of clubs in the French top flight since the war.
http://membres.lycos.fr/fanfoot51/sommaire.html
The OGCN kit history starts here: http://membres.lycos.fr/fanfoot51/dessins%20maillots/Nice/ogcn40.html
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Italy
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The whole thing has been very odd — they picked me without asking a single question, clear evidence that glowering at everyone is NOT a way to get rejected. I played it all wrong.
I should have known you’d have the answer to the sponsor question, Ursus, thank you! That’s a fascinating, very appealing little quirk. And thanks for the link to the Nice kits, I’ll enjoy digging through that and getting an education.
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Don’t encourage me.
But since you have, here are three other essential sites for kit obsessives:
http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/ (the UK, since the dawn of professional football)
http://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/ (the world since the 80s, not comprehensive, but featuring photos rather than drawings)
http://www.colours-of-football.com/ (very high quality drawings of kits from around the world since about 2000).
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Italy
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