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guignol
09 Jan 2007, 09:51 AM
les cahiers strike again! all in all, OL is just a bunch of poor frustrated neurotics crying out for love: http://www.cahiersdufootball.net/article.php?id=2358 :D
SportBoy333
09 Jan 2007, 11:09 AM
I have a question about the rugby and basketball teams in Lyon. I'd like to know which team is more popular and which gets more coverage in the local media. I know the rugby team is called LOU and the basketball team is called ASVEL and I just wanted to know which is more covered in the media and do most OL fans support those teams
guignol
10 Jan 2007, 05:09 AM
I have a question about the rugby and basketball teams in Lyon. I'd like to know which team is more popular and which gets more coverage in the local media. I know the rugby team is called LOU and the basketball team is called ASVEL and I just wanted to know which is more covered in the media and do most OL fans support those teamswell, since my son plays basketball, i go to nearly as many ASVEL games as OL.
the LOU is only second division and still overshadowed in the region by bourgoin-jallieu for rugby, but JMA (who else) is giving them a hand and they have an ambitious plan for the immediate future. note that the club is not Lyon Omnisports Universitaire as many think but Lyon Olympique Universitaire and the two clubs are historically related. the fact that they field teams in all sports (including good youth football teams) makes them very grassroots popular.
both these teams get full coverage in local news.
Aulas also is pitching in for the local handball team (vénissieux) and has offered to do so for the ice hockey team if they get there act together. this is another team we go watch play about 3-4 times a year.
Gnafron
10 Jan 2007, 06:52 AM
ASVEL is not a team from Lyon (although most of the people from Lyon root for them): they wear the green colour :rolleyes: and are from Villeurbanne…
Lyon CRO is supposed to be the basket team from Lyon but they were dismissed for bankruptcy and are now back again but from the deep bottom of the smalest leagues…
guignol
10 Jan 2007, 07:58 AM
ASVEL is not a team from Lyon (although most of the people from Lyon root for them): they wear the green colour :rolleyes: and are from Villeurbanne…
Lyon CRO is supposed to be the basket team from Lyon but they were dismissed for bankruptcy and are now back again but from the deep bottom of the smalest leagues…the CRO, or jet lyon as they were known for a while was simply a cruel joke... when they reappeared in Nat A i was hoping to support them (even though i've always worked there i didn't use to consider V'banne as really Lyon)... btw CRO stands for Croix Rousse Olympique (gnafron's neck of the woods) and they now specialize in a different "sport", in which i believe they are european champions...
http://www.parigones.net/IMG/arton871.jpg
SportBoy333
10 Jan 2007, 02:12 PM
When I read some info about ASVEL, it said they play in a Lyon surburb so I assumed that Villeurbanne was a Lyon suburb and not a seperate town. As for rugby, I never heard of bourgoin-jallieu
guignol
11 Jan 2007, 04:21 AM
although villeurbanne is a city of its own, it is more than a suburb, it's an integral part of the urban fabric. it's (mostly) inside the périphérique and you go from L to V and back when you're going around the left bank without even noticing. it has its own mayor, but then so does each arrondissement.
from one subject to another, here's a word on the debate on whether marseilles or lyon is the second city in france: the city of marseilles has about twice the population of our 9 arrondissements, but as marseilles grew they englobed all the surrounding towns into the municipality, whereas here a structure called the courly (communauté urbaine de lyon) was formed, and this greater lyon is slightly bigger than the corresponding urban agglomeration of marseilles.
Anti-footix
12 Jan 2007, 05:18 PM
villeurbanne=Lyon
I lived one year in the lyon's 3rd arrondissement... 5 meters away form villeurbanne ... and 100 meters away from bron by the way.
villeurbanne is like another big arrondissement.
people living in villeurbanne feel like lyonnais, and the fact that villeurbanne is inside the périphérique like guignol said makes it look like part of the city, unlike the main other suburbs of "l'est lyonnais" : vaux-en-vellin, bron and vénissieux.
guignol
15 Jan 2007, 07:22 AM
yes, especially if you live like i do on the "left bank" (6th, 3rd, 7th and 8th arrondissements, villeurbanne is a part of where you live... paradoxically, there are parts of lyon that are really central but can seem very remote... the croix-rousse is historically one of the hearts of the city, but unless you live there you go there rarely or never at all, and never cross through it... even stranger, the area south of the perrache station, though less than a km from the place bellecour is completely cut off by the freeway and railroad... i took a neighbor to the hockey match at charlemagne last year... he was born in lyon and didn't even know that neighborhood existed! it was like going to mars for him!
Anti-footix
29 Jan 2007, 09:35 AM
Chez Maman - Lyon
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guignol
29 Jan 2007, 10:01 AM
c'est quoi lyon?
priceless... for a couple of months we played in en boucle in the office! :D
rockymtn.mike
02 Feb 2007, 10:16 AM
FINALLY ! ! ! !
OL has redesigned their Club Shop (now run by Madeinsport) so you can have stuff shipped to the US ! ! ! !
I just bought some stuff
Anti-footix
02 Feb 2007, 12:17 PM
that's not a surprise for me as I stated long time ago. too bad they were not able to handle it by themself putting a competent person in charge of this activity.
DaeHaMinGuk
03 Feb 2007, 03:22 AM
FINALLY ! ! ! !
OL has redesigned their Club Shop (now run by Madeinsport) so you can have stuff shipped to the US ! ! ! !
I just bought some stuff
Nice.
I just need some new cashflow to get a Juninho CL away kit.
edit: Is it just me, or do they not have the black CL jersey?
lefutur
03 Feb 2007, 11:55 AM
Is it just me, or do they not have the black CL jersey?
I was looking for it too...couldn't find it.
Breakwood
04 Feb 2007, 09:58 PM
So we lost to Troyes today, 1-0.
WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
lefutur
05 Feb 2007, 01:28 AM
So we lost to Troyes today, 1-0.
WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Platini begged them to let the other teams catch up a little because it was hurting the league's image abroad.
guignol
05 Feb 2007, 03:34 AM
So we lost to Troyes today, 1-0. WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!actually OL didn't play that badly, and had some really nice shots, le crom had a helluva match! troyes played out of their skins and managed to hold on for the 0-0... and scored a "billiards" goal in the dying seconds of extra time to win!
the weak links for OL yesterday were fred and müller, and to a lesser extent RVR. but what was really missing was luck. OL had all the breaks in the first half of the season, and NONE so far in 2007.
the most worrying for me remains the injury situation: squillaci's problem is in the ischiojambiers, that is right at the top of the thigh muscle, and that can be a longterm nagging injury... and abidal left at halftime with something as yet undisclosed. if they're out for roma we're in trouble!
guignol
05 Feb 2007, 07:30 AM
no surprise that the UNFP player of the month for january won't by lyonnais... in fact there are none nominated. how far back must one go to find that? :confused:
rockymtn.mike
05 Feb 2007, 08:25 PM
I was looking for it too...couldn't find it.
I got mine
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i19/rockymtn_mike/100_0398.jpg