

Maurice Cohen
Newsie Odds and Ends
By: Martha |[Not as scared of Baky and Ben Arfa as he looks. Probably.]
•The Grenoble match will be played either a week from today or on the 17th of this month. The 10th was the league’s initial proposal, but Pierre Wantiez had a fit about Nice getting an extra day of rest, so it could be pushed [...]
Gréve Grève? (See Me Speaking French There? Recognize!)
By: Martha | “Strike? What strike? Leave me alone, I’m scoring goals over here!”
Please help, French-speakers. I can’t find anything about the threatened strike in English, and trying to figure something this complicated out through Google Translate is bound to end in disaster. My understanding, superficial as it is, is that if the LFP go through with their [...]
A Virtual Purge
By: Martha |Look at that face — it’s positively awash with guilt.
I thought I was over the Lyon match, but I just watched the Inside documentary at ogcnice.tv and am once again deeply depressed, albeit what I suspect is a very girly way — the rage is gone, and now I’m just really, really sad for all [...]
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 [...]
Auxerre 0-1 Nice
By: Martha |Auxerre 0-1 Nice
But: Yahia (29è) pour Nice
Auxerre: Riou - Hengbart, Coulibaly, Grichting, Mignot - Pedretti (c), Dudka (Niculae, 46è), Chafni, Lejeune - Quercia (Oliech, 23è), Jelen
Nice: Letizi - Diakité, Yahia, Kanté, Jeunechamp (Gace, 73è) - Echouafni (c), Faé, Hellebuyck - Traoré (Coulibaly, 75è), Rémy, Bamogo (Modeste, 85è)
[Sunday's Jour de foot is here; Nice highlights start [...]
Weekend Reading Material
By: Martha |Inara reminded me about this picture, and it had to be shared.
•Sports.fr just ran a short but typically positive interview with Chouf, who admits he’d be lying if he said he wasn’t worried about the transfer market, but is matter-of-fact about how things work at Nice. Also, he compares his old man self to fine [...]
Your Daily Baky Update (Plus)
By: Martha |I’m starting to worry now that once the Baky saga is over, there will be nothing to talk about — maybe I don’t want it to end, after all …
There are, however, a couple minor, non-Baky things going on today. First, even though there has been some conversation this summer about Anthony Mounier moving to [...]
Rehashing the Rehash
By: Martha |So, Baky’s back and everything’s pretty much the same as it was last week: He’s training with his teammates, is still a Nice player, and Cohen is again making noises about needing an agreement with OM tomorrow or the door is closed. (This after already closing the door once.) At the same time, though, he’s [...]
Newsie Odds and Ends
By: Martha |•Get used to me posting random pictures of Cyril #1.
•Things are bad with Koné — as I said in the comments last night, when player and club are having virtual arguments via their respective websites and battling for the title of Guy With the Shiniest Halo, it’s rarely a good sign. Cohen has made the [...]
Putting a Presidential Foot Down (Nicely, Of Course)
By: Martha |I put off posting this morning on the foolish assumption that something would be resolved on the Baky Kone front by early afternoon, my time. Ok, so the Nice board meeting to consider the most recent negotiations scheduled for yesterday was pushed to this morning — that’s still plenty of time for the news to [...]






