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Payet Shines as France Given a Timely Warning

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Payet Shines as France Given a Timely Warning Didier Deschamps is nothing if not forgiving. The 1998 World Cup-winning captain has been involved in a number of personality clashes during his coaching career at Monaco, Marseille and now France. Yet if some of the grudges endure – former OM sporting director José Anigo is unlikely to...

Peerless Payet Firing West Ham Back to Europe

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Peerless Payet Firing West Ham Back to Europe It wasn’t just the England squad that provided a talking point when Roy Hodgson announced his team for the upcoming international meetings with Germany and Netherlands. Danny Drinkwater’s inclusion was welcomed by the masses, with the midfielder rightly gaining recognition for his perfor...

Player Focus: Payet Absence the Root of West Ham's Offensive Woes

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Player Focus: Payet Absence the Root of West Ham's Offensive Woes For any team, losing their best player is a blow, regardless of their seasonal goals. For West Ham United that's just what has happened with Dimitri Payet, whose injury looks to have derailed their season. At the beginning of the campaign, the Hammers were in flying form. Talk of a European finish w...

Player Focus: Impressive Lanzini Quickly Becoming West Ham’s Jewel

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Player Focus: Impressive Lanzini Quickly Becoming West Ham’s Jewel The decision to replace Sam Allardyce a year before moving into the Olympic Stadium suddenly didn’t feel like the right play when West Ham were dumped out of the Europa League by Romanian side Astra Giurgiu before the Premier League had even started. Since then, however, victories away to Arse...

Match Report: West Ham Iron Out Home Form Against 10 Man Chelsea

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Match Report: West Ham Iron Out Home Form Against 10 Man Chelsea Saturday saw the final clash between West Ham and Chelsea at Upton Park and it was one to be remembered — by the home support at least. West Ham had already seen wins against Arsenal, Liverpool, and Manchester City this season. The Hammers win over Chelsea this weekend ensured that they are of...

Player Focus: West Ham's Payet Capture Proving Plaudits Right

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Player Focus: West Ham's Payet Capture Proving Plaudits Right Having seen their team become only the fourth ever to beat Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City away from home in the same season in the Premier League era, doing so in their opening three outings on the road, West Ham supporters are in dreamland right now.Despite successive home defeats to Leices...

Player Focus: Is Payet the Right Man to Keep West Ham in European Contention?

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Player Focus: Is Payet the Right Man to Keep West Ham in European Contention? West Ham United will start the next campaign with a man in charge without any managerial experience in the Premier League, under pressure to play an attractive brand of football, hamstrung with the burden of Europa League qualification and a brand new 54,000-capacity home on the horizon. The repercu...

League Focus: The Six Key Figures of Ligue 1 in 2014/15

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League Focus: The Six Key Figures of Ligue 1 in 2014/15 The finisher: Alexandre Lacazette (Lyon) The 23-year-old was voted Player of the Year by the Union Nationale des Footballeurs Professionnels (UNFP), and it was richly deserved. Lacazette hit 27 goals in just 33 Ligue 1 starts, a club record, but the local boy was about so much more than just that as...

Match Report: Lacazette Leads Hungry Reserves to Impressive France Win

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Match Report: Lacazette Leads Hungry Reserves to Impressive France Win It had to happen somewhere, sometime, but here? That Alexandre Lacazette’s first goal for France was scored at the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, the home of Lyon’s bitter rivals Saint Etienne (he was accordingly booed when he touched the ball in the early stages of Sunday’s game with De...

Team Focus: Bielsa Must Initiate Marseille Shake-Up to Stay in Ligue 1 Title Race

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Team Focus: Bielsa Must Initiate Marseille Shake-Up to Stay in Ligue 1 Title Race February has not yet come to its end but already, this felt like a pivotal weekend in the race for the Ligue 1 title – and Mevlut Erding’s late equaliser for Saint Etienne on Sunday night felt like a pivotal goal, as it denied Marseille a win at Stade Geoffroy-Guichard on a weekend in wh...