

Cyril Rool
Quick News Roundup
By: Martha |Spellcaster!Anto: “… And when you wake up, you will think I have a full head of hair!”
•Squad list for Arras:
Gardiens: Letizi, Moreau
Défenseurs: Apam, Cid, Gace, Hognon, Jeunechamp, Rool
Milieux: Echouafni, Faé, Hellebuyck, Traoré
Attaquants: Bamogo, Ben Saada, Modeste, Mouloungui, Ozokwo, Quansah
Rémy, Kante, and Coulibaly all have injury problems and Adu is suspended (?!), but the rest of [...]
Nice 2-1 Nantes
By: Martha |“With my head, bi- boss! I scored with my head!”
Buts: Bamogo (20è), Mouloungui (80è) pour Nice ; N’Daw (8è) pour Nantes
Nice: Letizi - Diakité (Jeunechamp 83è), Apam, Kanté, Rool - Echouafni (c), Faé, Hellebuyck - Bamogo (Coulibaly, 86è), Modeste (Ben Saada, 73è), Mouloungui
Nantes: Alonzo - Pierre, Moullec, Mareval, Gravgaard - N’Daw, Capoue (Keseru, 83è), Da [...]
Newsie Odds n Ends
By: Martha |[Football. So full of hidden laughs. Or: Old people FTW.]
First, the team for tomorrow:
Gardiens: Letizi, Ospina
Défenseurs: Apam, Cid, Diakité, Gace, Hognon, Jeunechamp, Kanté, Rool
Milieux: Echouafni, Faé, Hellebuyck
Attaquants: Bamogo, Ben Saada, Modeste, Mouloungui, Quansah
Absents: Coulibaly, Traoré, Rémy (blessés), Adu, Barul, Moreau, Moussilou, Ozokwo (choix de l’entraîneur)
Regarding the bad guys, they’re low in the table but have [...]
Injury Update + The Best Picture of the Season
By: Martha |I admit it, I’m making a post almost entirely to share this picture (Click, and the grinning gets even bigger!) — imagine being a young, nervous kid trying to survive at Monaco with the two of them around. I bet some of the young players from that team still have nightmares about the mocking, harassment, [...]
Nice 2-2 Bordeaux
By: Martha |Where am I? Who are you people?
After the first 30 minutes or so of Saturday’s match, you’d never, ever have been able to convince me that Nice would get a point. Not a million years. As everyone who gave voice to the obvious after the match (Antonetti and Cyril #1 among them) said, they gave [...]
Midweek, Pre-Derby News
By: Martha |[Quansah jubilating, as Getty would say.]
•Ben Saada played 10 minutes of Tunisia’s 1-3 friendly loss to France yesterday. Friendly or not, it was a big match for him personally, since he’s French-born and won a U-17 title in a France shirt before choosing Tunisia as his senior side. (Based on his grinny, pre-match interview, though, [...]
That Sucked, and This Won’t Help
By: Martha |I’m traveling and working and won’t be able to get a report up until Tuesday (which is probably just as well, since if I wrote it now, you’d get a long piece comparing Italian and French referees, mixed with a lot of mooning over Cyril #1 and being sent off on principle), but until then [...]
Lyon: What Passes for a Preview
By: Martha |Don’t make me call your mother, punk.
Gardiens: Letizi, Ospina
Défenseurs: Cid, Diakité, Gace, Hognon, Kanté, Rool
Milieux: Coulibaly, Echouafni, Faé, Hellebuyck
Attaquants: Bamogo, Ben Saada, Modeste, Mouloungui, Rémy
Absents: Apam, Moreau, Traoré (blessés), Jeunechamp (suspendu), Asamoah, Barul, Moussilou, Ozokwo (choix de l’entraîneur)
Read ‘em and weep, kids: No Apam. Yikes. I realize the team were without him for the [...]
Is it Saturday Yet?
By: Martha |Cyril #1 and his arms: Both happy to be back.
Apologies for the lack of posts, but there’s nothing freaking going on, apart from the official site failing to keep up with the schedule they made for ogcnice.tv. The one change there is that we can now pay €50 for access to the site for the [...]
Heading Out Old Qatar Way
By: Martha |As promised, Joseph-Desire Job is headed to Qatar: He’s been sold to Al Kharaitiyat, a club whose official website has been suspended, apparently for failure to pay hosting costs. I hope that’s not a sign of how good they are about paying salaries. Even more strangely, the team doesn’t appear in FIFA’s table of the [...]






