Weekend Results: Coming From Behind
The Pincer Movement. We may try this one ourselves.
We managed to find a theme to our post this week and stick to it all the way through. Boom.
'Ligue 1' Category
Hello Sailor: Bafetimbi Gomis, Lyon
We commend Bafe for always having the strength of character to leave the house without consulting a human or inanimate reflective object beforehand. Image: Gomis’ super-entertaining facebook page.
Kickette Catch Up: Your Weekend Gossip Cheat Sheet
Filmed in a “We Are The World” documentary style, PSG’s new song, “Allez Paris Saint-Germain,” is set to a disco track.
It’s Miserable Monday, so we’re going to let this one slide.
Weekend Results: Queries & Revisionist Theories
Boca was one of three players sent off during a particularly feisty Old Firm derby yesterday. The ref obviously hadn’t received our memo about keeping players with hot thighs on the pitch regardless of crap tackling ability. Image: Getty Images/Daylife.
Quick, get us an iced latte and a muscular midfielder, stat!
We don’t have to explain why, just someone please do it.
Olivier Giroud & Benjamin Corgnet: England’s Most Wanted?
Olivier Giroud contemplates the prospect of snogging Bacary Sagna. Image: FRANCK FIFE/AFP/Getty Images.
With Sir Alex Ferguson and Roberto Mancini vigorously ploughing the Eden Hazard furrow and Harry Redknapp (or REDBAPPS as our cellphone autocorrect amusingly insists) flirting with Loic Remy, Ligue 1 is clearly going to be a heavy contributor to the EPL cause this summer.
And no British invasion of French soil would be complete without plunderer-in-chief Arsene Wenger, who is rumoured to be jones-ing for the services of Dijon midfielder Benjamin Corgnet and Montpellier’s Olivier Giroud.
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