It seems to me that Roberto is another wasted talent, who doesn’t have the inner drive to fulfill his potential.Troyes are currently one up against Nice.
We currently have four players on loan at Troyes: Erik Palmer-Brown, Issa Kabore, Patrick Roberts, and Philippe Sandler. The first two are on the bench today but the other two haven’t even made the squad in the last three games. I don’t think they’re injured either and looking at their stat I see they haven’t even managed 90 minutes between them this season. Looks like another year off before their respective contracts terminate next season.
When I started following French football, St Etienne was probably the best-known club. Dominique Rocheteau was their star player.For those who are interested in genuine football history, can I strongly recommend that you read the excellent article on Red Star on the BBC website. It is extremely refreshing to see a journalist redress the balance as regards French football (which does have a history). PSG were invented in 1970. Red Star existed long, long before them. As a matter of fact, in the 50s, it was Reims, if anyone, who were the star club in French football, with Raymond Kopa leading the line. Nantes are an old and venerable club. So are Racing Club Lens. So, it has to be said — although their supporters are very gobby in a Liverpudlian kind of way — are Olympique de Marseille.
I'm particularly sensitive to this kind of thing in that a whole raft of younger supporters, including sometimes younger blues themselves, seem to think that we were created in 2008, rather than being aware that we, like other clubs in and out of the Premier League, some of whom have fallen on very hard times, were created by the nineteenth century industrial revolution and the newly acquired rights of working men to have Saturday afternoons off in the latter part of that century.
The one resonant name in French football from my formative years is St Etienne, whose winger Dominique Rocheteau had a perm that made Mario Kempes look like Ross Kemp. And they played, and still play, in green, which certainly cut down on the colour clashes.For those who are interested in genuine football history, can I strongly recommend that you read the excellent article on Red Star on the BBC website. It is extremely refreshing to see a journalist redress the balance as regards French football (which does have a history). PSG were invented in 1970. Red Star existed long, long before them. As a matter of fact, in the 50s, it was Reims, if anyone, who were the star club in French football, with Raymond Kopa leading the line. Nantes are an old and venerable club. So are Racing Club Lens. So, it has to be said — although their supporters are very gobby in a Liverpudlian kind of way — are Olympique de Marseille.
I'm particularly sensitive to this kind of thing in that a whole raft of younger supporters, including sometimes younger blues themselves, seem to think that we were created in 2008, rather than being aware that we, like other clubs in and out of the Premier League, some of whom have fallen on very hard times, were created by the nineteenth century industrial revolution and the newly acquired rights of working men to have Saturday afternoons off in the latter part of that century.
See my post above.The one resonant name in French football from my formative years is St Etienne, whose winger Dominique Rocheteau had a perm that made Mario Kempes look like Ross Kemp. And they played, and still play, in green, which certainly cut down on the colour clashes.
I’ve checked my memory in this, and find to some surprise he transferred from St Etienne to Paris St German, of all teams, in 1980. Fact I didn’t remember suggests this was not an upwardly mobile career move at the time.
Touché!See my post above.
My favourite French team is Nantes, as they were the closest top-flight club to where I was staying (school exchange in Finistère) the first time I went across the Channel.
The one resonant name in French football from my formative years is St Etienne, whose winger Dominique Rocheteau had a perm that made Mario Kempes look like Ross Kemp. And they played, and still play, in green, which certainly cut down on the colour clashes.
I’ve checked my memory in this, and find to some surprise he transferred from St Etienne to Paris St German, of all teams, in 1980. Fact I didn’t remember suggests this was not an upwardly mobile career move at the time.