Never Again Will I Repeat Myself

Category: GF38

  • La fin de la débâcle

    Well, what a shambles that all was.  The writing was on the wall for more than a season but in the end no workable solutions could be found and GF38 as a professional club is no more.  From CFA1 to the heights of Ligue 1 (and for a fleeting instant, the top of Ligue 1)…

  • GF38: a glimmer of light?

    So maybe there is some hope.  A couple of weeks ago the club looked doomed: wretched on the pitch; rudderless off it; and the game’s managing body preparing an administrative relegation that would surely condemn the club to extinction.

  • Football, bloody football

    Things are not looking good.  After a brief display of attacking verve and defensive solidity in the 4-1 victory over Northampton, Barnet have reverted to type and indeed trademarked a pattern of play: look solid for an hour and lead 1-0, and then start screwing up at the back and leak a couple of soft…

  • Another weekend passes

    GF managed a 2-2 draw at home to the league leaders.  Barnet came back from Torquay with a point from a 1-1 draw.  I think I’d have accepted both of those results before kick-off.

  • GF38: update

    So the message about scoring goals has been heeded, with the boys scoring four times last night at Châteauroux. If in coming weeks they can concentrate on scoring them at the right end, things will be looking even better.

  • GF38: another season of misery?

    It’s all gone distinctly pear-shaped at Grenoble Foot.  Several years of hope, excitement and entertaining football culminated in the opening of the splendid Stade des Alpes in 2008 and a somewhat unexpected promotion to the top flight, but after a single season of solidity in Ligue 1 (and a run to the semi-finals of the…