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Nice 2 Lyon 0

Michel de Vacri Lat night Nice beat Olympique Lyon 2-0 to increase our lead at the head of Ligue Une by 4 points and our best ever start with 7 wins and 2 draws out of 9 games. Lyon were once one of the powerhouses of French football, winning the championship seven years running, and are still a [...]

October 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

Nice to be top

Michel  de Vacri Of course I follow in the Rust Brighton, Fulham and Harlequins but one thing I can say to my fellow correspondents is that I am the only one to support a team that tops its league. This is all the more impressive as we lost our manager Claude Puel to Southampton and our best [...]

September 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Brighton 0 Brentford 2

After my missus read my piece last Friday she said “What sort of reporter are you, you failed to notice the platform broke down. Stick to the day time job.” I got more info from the Argus and other 1901 members none of whom were allowed into the viewing platform once it finally [...]

September 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

Sam Allardyce

Like many I’m underwhelmed by the appointment of Sam Allardyce. His best achievement was at Bolton where he worked the successful model of ageing players on short term expensive contracts but this was at a cost that has left Bolton with enormous debt and now in the third tier. He did not last [...]

July 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

Fed win and Castle controversy

John Pargiter asked my advice on betting pre-Wimbledon. I fancied Maron Cilic to win his section where Roger Federer was the highest seed. The Croatian bases his power game on his coach’s Goren Ivanosevic. I felt it was powerful enough to blow away 35 year old 7-time champion Fed. And so it [...]

July 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/Harry’s Bar

When a rich and successful businessman I know suggested for his turn for lunch we go to Harry’s bar in South Audley Street my mind went back to another businessman from Birmingham who once there resolutely refused to pay for truffles on the basis there that the waiter did not explain the [...]

June 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

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Bilan

Michel di Vacri Bilan is a financial word and I guess the best translation would be “reckoning up” or “taking the account” so with Robert Tickler and his entourage leaving Friday I would say the bilan of the stay has been very positive. Yesterday I walked through the flower [...]

April 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

France Football

Michel di Vacri I have enjoyed the company of Monsieur Robert and his entourage but I thought the readers might appreciate a break from the restaurants and the good life and allow me a few paragraphs to discuss the state of French national football. Les Bleus are the host of the forthcoming Euros [...]

March 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

Nice 3 Ajaccio 0

Michel di Vacri I thought it would be amusing to go to watch our local team, OGC Nice play. The Eagles as they are known are third in Ligue One and therefore on target for a Champions League place. PSG have already won the title and by far the best team. Monaco are second and Olympique Lyon prior [...]

March 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

Nice

Bonjour, My name is Michel di Vacri and I am the latest recruit to the National Rust reporting on cultural and sporting life on the riviera or cote as we Nicois call it. Nice is the fifth largest city in France but oddly enough not the capital city of Alpes Maritimes which is Marseilles. Only that [...]

March 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

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