Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Nov 22, 2009, 10:29 pm
An interesting blog post from one of the France Football blogs. I think many of the points are well made and hold some truth. The team has played with little perceived passion during the entire qualif...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Nov 21, 2009, 4:16 pm
Okay Okay...the hysteria over the Titi Henry "Hand of Frog" has barely died down, but the pots for the qualifiers for the Euro 2012 are out...and how ironic would it be if Les Bleus were drawn with th...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Nov 20, 2009, 10:36 am
For once I am on Roy Keane's side - he statement on the Irish loss was spot on - best quote: "They can complain all they want but France are going to the World Cup. Get over it." I complete agree ...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Nov 19, 2009, 10:59 pm
Well 24 hours on from the "Hand of Frog" - I did not come up with that but will gladly "borrow" it! I have enjoyed reading and listening to the reaction of fans and pundits (it was even talked about o...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Nov 19, 2009, 9:29 am
No surprise, the Irish are asking FIFA to call for a replay of the game due to the Henry hand ball. Um are you serious? Should England ask for the same to replay the 1/4 final game against Argentina i...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Nov 18, 2009, 10:27 pm
A nice compilation of all the goals from Les Bleus during the campaign. The last one remains the most controversial!
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Nov 18, 2009, 8:07 pm
Okay okay, might not have been in the World Cup in a knock out stage game between two nations that had recently fired their weapons against each other in anger....but this, in Ireland will be seen muc...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Nov 18, 2009, 4:33 pm
Congrats to Ireland...they deserved better. It should have gone to PKs were it not for the referee's poor decision to allow the French goal to stand after a hand ball from Henry. Les Bleus are the...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Nov 18, 2009, 3:21 pm
Ugh...Ireland up 1-0...deservedly after a terrible and lackadaisical start from Les Bleus. Were it not for Lloris France would be down by more. I am getting a very bad feeling about this...If this fir...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Nov 18, 2009, 12:56 am
Not sure what this means for the game being shown on TV5 or other channels in the United States, but a good sign. The story from L'Equipe. Otherwise it would appear that one can watch it via the s...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Nov 18, 2009, 12:14 am
I was reading "Everything French Football" a solid blog on French footie and a story he has posted on the potential starting line up for Les Bleus tomorrow...and it includes Escude at center back. Um ...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Nov 17, 2009, 5:22 pm
The one outstanding item is that no one is clear if the game will be broadcast on TV5 due to a dispute with the federations. Come on! Lets get this resolved. If you want to continue to spread the exci...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Nov 17, 2009, 10:56 am
We have had over 2 days now to chew on France's 1-0 victory at Croke Park, and now the hard part is at hand - the return leg in Paris' Stade de France. As we all know, France has also suffered...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Nov 15, 2009, 9:12 pm
The latest news from Clairefontaine, Abidal is out for the return leg on Wednesday (so is Toulalan but he was already injured for the Dublin clash). This is an interesting wrinkle for the match. Abida...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Nov 15, 2009, 9:01 am
The one take away from yesterday's game is the fact that Hugo Lloris is emerging as the French #1. As Henry mentioned a keeper needs to make 2-3 big saves/plays in any win, and Lloris did exactly ...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Nov 14, 2009, 3:54 pm
Ooof...that was a tough match to watch. France escape Dublin with a 1-0 victory as well as no players suspended for the second leg in Paris on Wednesday. Good to see a little fracas after the match......
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Nov 14, 2009, 1:20 pm
France and Ireland have announced their starting line ups for the match - FRANCE : Lloris - Sagna, Gallas, Abidal, Evra - A. Diarra, L. Diarra - Anelka, Gourcuff, Henry - Gignac. IRLANDE : Given - O...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Nov 14, 2009, 12:33 pm
The play offs for the final spots in the World Cup are well under way, with the latest side - New Zealand - with a tight 1-0 victory over Bahrain, New Zealand had to stop a penalty in the second half ...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Nov 13, 2009, 9:08 pm
Another twist to watch, which will have a bearing on the return match in Paris are the French players under "yellow card" peril - meaning if they pick up a yellow card during the match tomorrow they w...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Nov 13, 2009, 3:42 pm
While tomorrow many of us will be focusing on exciting friendlies or nail biting world cup playoffs, we should also remember the passing of German Keeper Robert Enke this week to an apparent suicide. ...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Nov 13, 2009, 2:15 pm
So I have given the match tomorrow much though...really thinking about the match since it became apparent that France would be playing the 2nd place matches. As with many of these matches, the underdo...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Nov 12, 2009, 9:42 pm
... ....what about Les Bleus? France - Les Bleus are a team still trying to find their soul...these games will either give them a definition and purpose, or will force them to watch the games ... th...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Nov 11, 2009, 8:16 am
91 years ago today at the 11th hour the hostilities of the "Great War" came to an end. While the world would suffer greater conflict less than a generation later, at the time this was the war to end a...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Nov 10, 2009, 2:32 pm
So I gave some th0ught to the managers last post, now let us look at the players. Since at the end of the day it is the players on the pitch that will make the passes, take the shots, defend, score an...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Nov 8, 2009, 11:34 pm
As we are less than a week away from the first match between France and Ireland, I was thinking about all the elements that go into the game...why not...I have time and why not over analyze the matche...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Nov 8, 2009, 3:28 pm
Aie Aie Aie!!! PSG with a resounding win last week against Sochaux and this week hit the post twice and end up losing 1-0 on last minute goal from Remy. PSG was then booed off the Parc Des Princes pi...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Nov 6, 2009, 8:38 pm
So I have had another 24 hours to think about the players Domenech has called up for the upcoming matches versus Ireland, and thought occurred to me - might Domenech be looking to go to a hybrid 4-4-2...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Nov 5, 2009, 10:27 pm
France have a new kit. During his announcement for the upcoming play off round, Domenech also showed off the new kit. It has some striking similarities to the kit France wore during their 1984 Europea...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Nov 5, 2009, 10:23 pm
So the list for the 2nd place play off for the World Cup is out for Les Bleus...no major surprises but some interesting formations/situations may arise. First the list: Gardiens de But ...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Nov 3, 2009, 7:45 pm
Congrats to the Girodins de Bordeaux, pulling off the 2-0 victory versus Bayern Munich on the German's turf. Goals from Gourcuff and Chamakh ensure that the French champs are through to the knock ...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Nov 1, 2009, 8:57 pm
So PSG got back to the pitch this weekend after having their derby match against OM postponed last week due to the H1N1 virus, aka swine flu. The time off seemed to have worked with a convincing 4-1 d...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Oct 22, 2009, 12:55 pm
Impressive victory for OL defeating Liverpool in the Champions League this week, and did this at Anfield. Having the full 9 points from the first 3 games places Lyon in pole position to go through. Kn...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Oct 19, 2009, 10:09 am
So FIFA made the draw today and the match ups are set. I will admit my greatest fear came true, Les Bleus will have to face the Irish in the match up...no not the team in South Bend Indiana...so let u...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Oct 18, 2009, 1:54 pm
I did not watch the entire match but I cannot help myself to chuckle at Rafa and Liverpool. Starting, arguably, their most challenging week Rafa and his men fell 1-0 to a beach ball...see below: This...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Oct 14, 2009, 3:30 pm
France ended their World Cup qualifying group stage campaign, and are now awaiting to learn their fate with which of the following nations - Slovenia, Ireland, Bosnia or Ukraine - to play a tense home...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Oct 13, 2009, 9:17 pm
A recent report states that both Domenech and Trezeguet might bury the hatchet opening the door for the Juve striker to come back to Les Bleus. Interesting. I have always been a fan of Trez, it was un...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Oct 12, 2009, 10:19 pm
First off, this is my 500 posts on the Bean Town frog, I thought long and hard about making it something reflective, deep and memorable...but instead I will talk about...Les Bleus and make it short an...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Oct 10, 2009, 8:46 pm
Well what we all have accepted is now official - Les Bleus have qualified for the second place play off for the World Cup, with a rather easy 5-0 victory over the 185th ranked team according to FIFA. ...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Oct 6, 2009, 9:44 am
Wow, the latest from the Sun - Chelsea might be interested in Inter's Vieira! How strange would that be to see Pat wearing the Chelsea kit? Then again that would hearken back to the days of old at...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Oct 5, 2009, 4:03 pm
Aie Aie Aie...what else can you say. Ribery is the last, after Gourcuff, that will sit out the next two matches for Les Bleus. Without Gourcuff and Ribery, France is at a loss for who will assume the ...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Oct 4, 2009, 11:19 pm
World Cup qualifiers are coming to an end and should prove very interesting. There are a number of nations that may be out of South Africa such as Portugal and Argentina that both might completely eli...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Oct 1, 2009, 12:03 pm
Two games left...and then, hopefully, the 2nd place playoff...the automatic qualifier seems out of reach for now. With matches against Faroe Islands and then Austria, Les Bleus still have much work to...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Sep 30, 2009, 4:35 pm
So the Benzema vs Domenech drama continues, in an article from the Telegramme de Brest, the France manager calls out his young striker: stating that it is inadmissible to not give 100% whether you pla...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Sep 27, 2009, 9:45 pm
Interesting article about players that might play for the US National team who have strong ties to Mexico and El Tri. Following up to the post I had a few days ago about which nation could you qualify...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Sep 27, 2009, 8:38 pm
So the latest from Madrid is that French star, Karim Benzema, does not feel at ease with Les Bleus. Shocking! Well really not. When you have a manager such as Domenech who is quirky and changes ideas ...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Sep 26, 2009, 2:00 pm
OM drops 3 points at Valenciennes losing 3-2 on a nice set piece goal late in the game. Marseilles seemed to have many offensive options but were weak at the back, the entry of Ben Arfa late in the co...
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Guy Courtin posted an article on The Bean Town Frog - Sep 25, 2009, 9:47 am
Ok I will admit, I have seen this video on a few other blogs, so I am not the first to have posted it, but it is a great commercial, very old school, very cool. Love how Nike has Rooney and Ribery mak...
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