[Albion] Marseille perspective

[Jim in the West]

Just had a quick read through the match thread on the OM equivalent of NSC. Obviously their message board is huge (125k members), but reassuring to see the similarities (!)....the thread consists almost entirely of posts bemoaning their players/team/manager. After the match it moves on to discussions about who they might face in the knock-out round (of whom they only really seem to think that Milan are worthy opponents!).

Not much on us, but I picked out a few posts - all in French, obvs, but hopefully easy to guess the meaning for non-linguists:

- Bref mérité pour de Zerbi : un vrai entraîneur
- De zerbi n’a pas insulté le foot et a respecté sa philosophie - C’est mérité
- Gilmour c'est vraiment un super joueur !
- Il me plaît ce Mitoma côté gauche...
- Jao Pedro 35 millions - Vitinha 32millions mais y a tellement plus de différence sur le terrain
- La différence de niveau entre Joao Pedro et nos attaquants...
- Ca se voit à l'oeil nu que le mec est plus talentueux que tous nos attaquants réunis
- Qu'est ce qu'il est bon ce Joao Pedro. Il nous a tué sur les deux rencontres.
- C’est sûr mais regardes Brighton, avec des joueurs pas connu, un entraîneur bon, arrive à en tirer le meilleur et surtout instaurer une vraie philosophie de jeu

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

Well deserved for de Zerbi: a real coach
- De zerbi did not insult football and respected its philosophy - It is deserved
- Gilmour is really a great player!
- I like this Mitoma on the left side...
- Jao Pedro 35 million - Vitinha 32 million but there is so much more difference on the pitch
- The difference in level between Joao Pedro and our attackers...
- It can be seen with the naked eye that the guy is more talented than all our attackers combined
- How good is this Joao Pedro. He killed us in both matches.
- It's sure but look at Brighton, with unknown players, a good coach, manages to get the best out of them and above all establish a real playing philosophy

 

[el punal]

Gilmour is a super jouer!
or the boy done good.

 

[GT49er]

To save everybody piling into Google translate............

Edit: Never mind - somebody Google translated faster than I did!

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Are there threads about people leaving the game early, the French government imploding, the French Christmas TV schedule and 'Le Wordle' results?

What about fish puns?

 

[Washie]

Are there threads about people leaving the game early, the French government imploding, the French Christmas TV schedule and 'Le Wordle' results?

What about fish puns?

They are poissonate about that last one

 

[Greg Bobkin]

They are poissonate about that last one

Tres bon.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Are there threads about people leaving the game early, the French government imploding, the French Christmas TV schedule and 'Le Wordle' results?

What about fish puns?

The latter is Le Mot.
Fish puns would be lowering the BAR in LIEU

 

[raymondo]

Are there threads about people leaving the game early, the French government imploding, the French Christmas TV schedule and 'Le Wordle' results?

What about fish puns?

Surely they were terrified of the East Stand Ultras ...but no mention

 

[Mustafa II]

Some of the football we were playing was 'putain de ridicule' - I can see how neutrals admired it, even they were on the wrong side of it.

 

[Baldseagull]

They are poissonate about that last one

Chapeau

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Are there threads about people leaving the game early, the French government imploding, the French Christmas TV schedule and 'Le Wordle' results?

What about fish puns?

Probably an equal amount of fact and bouillabaisse being spouted

 

[North of Robertsbridge]

If we want fishy references, here's one from the comments on l'Équipe

• Brighton c’est une belle station balnéaire anglaise où on mange de bons fish and cheaps

In the spirit of the original post, some reflections on the game from l'Équipe readers (picked out from several hundred posts)

• Le score ne reflète absolument pas la différence de niveau entre les deux clubs; Brighton largement supérieur
• Brighton meilleur techniquement , collectivement , tactiquement
• Perdre 1-0 à Brighton na rien d'extraordinaire,ni de honteux puisque Brighton fait parti du meilleur championnat du monde
• "Battu de justesse"...au niveau score et timing du but, certes, mais sinon, large domination de Brighton
• Victoire méritée des Anglais, bien meilleure dans le jeu.
• Bravo à Brighton! rien a dire sur ce match
• Prendre une fiente de mouette à la 89ieme ça fait mal
  (in case Google Translate doesn't do it justice - "getting covered in seagull droppings in the 89th", that hurts")
• Quand les mouettes anglaises volent haut, les sardines marseillaises risquent gros
• iIs ont un très bon avant centre rapide et technique João Pedro que bien des clubs européens aimeraient avoir
• Brighton rock (Sheer heart attack, Queen, 1974)
• Victoire logique des anglais qui etaient nettement au dessus
• Amis Marseillais, Brighton vous a volé votre devise, ils sont allés droit au but
  Droit au but / straight to the goal being OM's motto

And an awful lot of

• Bravo Brighton

and

• Mérité pour les anglais

plus plenty of slagging off the OM shirts

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

plus plenty of slagging off the OM shirts

and rightly so. They looked like Hull City in the 1990s.

 

[London Irish]

Just had a quick read through the match thread on the OM equivalent of NSC. Obviously their message board is huge (125k members), but reassuring to see the similarities (!)....the thread consists almost entirely of posts bemoaning their players/team/manager. After the match it moves on to discussions about who they might face in the knock-out round (of whom they only really seem to think that Milan are worthy opponents!).

Not much on us, but I picked out a few posts - all in French, obvs, but hopefully easy to guess the meaning for non-linguists:

- Bref mérité pour de Zerbi : un vrai entraîneur
- De zerbi n’a pas insulté le foot et a respecté sa philosophie - C’est mérité
- Gilmour c'est vraiment un super joueur !
- Il me plaît ce Mitoma côté gauche...
- Jao Pedro 35 millions - Vitinha 32millions mais y a tellement plus de différence sur le terrain
- La différence de niveau entre Joao Pedro et nos attaquants...
- Ca se voit à l'oeil nu que le mec est plus talentueux que tous nos attaquants réunis
- Qu'est ce qu'il est bon ce Joao Pedro. Il nous a tué sur les deux rencontres.
- C’est sûr mais regardes Brighton, avec des joueurs pas connu, un entraîneur bon, arrive à en tirer le meilleur et surtout instaurer une vraie philosophie de jeu

Not surprised they were pissed off with Gattuso. How many times so you see teams spoiling for a draw get caught some where near the end - it's almost like the unwritten law of football.

Yes we got lucky with the two woodworks but I think the weight of possession helped to create that luck.

They needed to be braver for top spot

 

[Badger]

Are there threads about people leaving the game early, the French government imploding, the French Christmas TV schedule and 'Le Wordle' results?

What about fish puns?

They have a poster called Le Crodouax proclaiming "Les garçons de Madame Brown" to be the best show to watch this Christmas.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Well deserved for de Zerbi: a real coach
- De zerbi did not insult football and respected its philosophy - It is deserved
- Gilmour is really a great player!
- I like this Mitoma on the left side...
- Jao Pedro 35 million - Vitinha 32 million but there is so much more difference on the pitch
- The difference in level between Joao Pedro and our attackers...
- It can be seen with the naked eye that the guy is more talented than all our attackers combined
- How good is this Joao Pedro. He killed us in both matches.
- It's sure but look at Brighton, with unknown players, a good coach, manages to get the best out of them and above all establish a real playing philosophy

Thanks ….my CSE grade 5 French was struggling

 

[Sussexscots]

Are there threads about people leaving the game early, the French government imploding, the French Christmas TV schedule and 'Le Wordle' results?

What about fish puns?

Oui!

L'épisode du jour de Noël de 'Mrs Brown's Boys' est attendu avec enthousiasme. Ou détesté

 

[Bry Nylon]

“Malade comme un perroquet, Clive”

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Are there threads about people leaving the game early, the French government imploding, the French Christmas TV schedule and 'Le Wordle' results?

What about fish puns?

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