The 2012 Olympic Games: France & Japan Light Up Wembley
There has been quite a lot written over the last few days on the subject of the Olympic Games and its various interactions with association football. A lot of this...
Posts Tagged: "France"
Euro 2012: The Quarter-Finals – Spain 2-0 France
If Germany versus Greece or Portugal versus the Czech Republic didn’t quite scratch the itch after the end of the group stages of this summers European Championships, then this evenings...
Euro 2012: Group D – The Final Day
The phrase “you make your own luck” is an overused one and it is perfectly possible to argue that luck, by its very nature, is random. There can be little...
For The King, The Empire And John Terry: The Wing Commander Writes On England Vs France
Regular – or indeed occasional – readers of the When Saturday Comes magazine forum will probably already be aware of the writings of the Wing Commander, the last living remnant...
Euro Moments: France
This mornings Euro Moment comes from France, and features former midfielder and member of the “Carré Magique” Alain Giresse standing atop a plinth. Don’t forget, you can see plenty more...
European Championship Stories: 1984 – Le Veritable Roi Michel
They’ve been playing for one hundred and nineteen minutes on this balmy Mediterranean evening at le Stade Velodrome in Marseille and nothing, so far, has been able to separate the...
European Championship Stories: 1960 – Cold War Football
There are plenty of people, not least within the governing bodies of football itself, who would have it that football and politics don’t mix. This is, of course, bunkum, whether...
My Favourite Match: France vs Portugal, The 1984 European Championships
Football matches come, of course, in all shapes and sizes – the critically important and the relatively inconsequential, local derbies steeped in decades of mutual loathing and round-trips which measure...
The 2011 Womens World Cup: A Possible Revolutionary Encounter
Back in 1950, Harry Keough perhaps summarised best the general attitude toward the quality of the American game that might still hold true in some quarters of the international football...
England Lose World Cup Match On Penalty Kicks
Perhaps, on a bookshelf in the offices of the Football Association at Wembley Stadium, there is a leather-bound book called “How To Get Knocked Out Of A Major Tournament”. It’s...
The 2011 Women’s World Cup: Group A Preview
It’s now less than two weeks until the 2011 Women’s World Cup starts in Germany, and over the next couple of weeks or so we’ll be taking the time to...
France Fall At The First
In England, it isn’t difficult to run into Francophobia. Sometimes it feels as if a range of feelings from mild dislike to irrational, rabid hatred are hard-wired into our DNA....
World Cup 2010: South Africa 2-1 France
Twelve years ago, at their own World Cup finals, France comfortably beat South Africa in their opening group game, going on to become the sixth nation to win the tournament...
Anelka’s Outburst Shows Up French Shortcomings
Sitting an watching from the other side of “La Manche”, one of the few crumbs of comfort for England supporters over the first week of the 2010 World Cup finals...
World Cup 2010: France 0-2 Mexico
It’s hotting up, you know. Two terrifically entertaining matches this afternoon in South Africa have continued the 2010 World Cup’s awakening from slumber, and this evening France play Mexico in...
World Cup 2010: Uruguay 0-0 France
Game two then, and after all the discussion of squad selections and line-ups, we've already had a look at ITV's opening performance and it's time to see what the BBC's...
World Cup Preview: Group A
The 19th FIFA World Cup kicks off in nine weeks today, and as such Dotmund continues his almost-in-depth look ahead to this summer's festivities. Today is the beginning of...
Good Hosts and Bad Hosts
Until someone figures out how to astroturf the moon and stop the corner flags floating away, all major sporting events have to take place somewhere. And when you have...
Video Of The Week: France – Black, White & Blue
This week’s “Video Of The Week” is from the “More Than A Game” Series, and focusses on the history of football in France, as seen through the prism of immigration....
The World Cup Of National Anthems (Part One)
For many people, major sports tournaments are the only occasion that national anthems are heard. These peculiar tunes have become a genre of their own, transcending the mere hymns that...