Dumb Metz fans ruin a match their team was leading (Lyon/Twitter) Shortly after 13th-place Metz took a 1-o lead over fifth-place Lyon at home, their fans decided things were going entirely too well and figured they should ruin everything with a bang. And so, these idiots threw a firework onto the pitch, which exploded next to …
This day in football history On 18 November 2009, France secured their place at the 2010 World Cup thanks to one of football’s most controversial goals. Facing Ireland in a playoff after both finished second in their respective qualification groups, France were heavily favored to advance. They won the first leg in Dublin, 0–1, so that …
Supeeer Jeeeff Bédéniiiik ! #TeamVOC #SuperJeff #TéléfootOuPas ? pic.twitter.com/tErBOxlK5j — Vannes OC — Officiel (@VocfootOfficiel) October 1, 2016 There have been many penalties saved through luck and many others through skill, but few have combined the two in such extremes as this moment from the French fifth division. Vannes OC goalkeeper Jean-Francois “Jeff” Bedenik dove the wrong way on …
https://www.instagram.com/p/BKoYDMXhh-7/ In two Ligue 1 matches, Mario Balotelli has scored twice as many goals as he did in the previous two seasons. You can say that’s because he’s taken a step down to a league that’s less demanding on a troubled striker than the Premier League or Serie A, but the positive reinforcement Nice has …
(@FCMetz) According to the World Food Programme, Chad ranks 73rd out of 78 countries on the Global Hunger Index. And yet, the country is now the shirt sponsor for Ligue 1 club Metz. Though Azerbaijan has recently proven that being the shirt sponsor for a football club can be successful for an oil-laden country riddled …
Toulouse fans have taken a liking to manager Pascal Dupraz and to illustrate this, they created a special Tinder themed Tifo for the Ligue 1 match against Bordeaux that features his image within the app and the words “It’s a match!” Dupraz joined the struggling club in March of this year and helped them avoid …
Jeremy Menez recently moved from Milan to Bordeaux and he has wasted no time in shedding blood and chunks of his body for his new club. During a friendly against Lorient, Didier Ndong stomped on Menez’s head, which ripped off a chunk of Menez’s ear. Graphic image of said ear this way… Menez had to …
After getting stretchered off in the first half of the Euro 2016 final and wiping the tear drowned moths from his face, Cristiano Ronaldo didn’t hide in self-pity — he came back out and took on a new job for Portugal: head coach. With a brace on his knee, Cristiano hobbled up and down the touchline, shouting …
A collision with France’s Dimitri Payet early in the first half of the Euro 2016 final left Cristiano Ronaldo with a badly injured knee. Though he isn’t normally one to receive the world’s empathy, watching him exhaust every ounce of his considerable willpower to try and continue before tearfully going off for treatment twice and …
https://www.youtube.com/embed/9mE3fonGRn4 Before France’s 2–0 win over Germany in the Euro 2016 semifinals, Paul Pogba gave the France Football Federation’s YouTube channel a look at what he does on tournament off days. After being cooped up in the team hotel for about a month straight already, you’d think there would be a lot of boredom and …
