Gaël Givet

November 8th, 2009

Fortress Ewood: 3 More points at home v Pompey + PODCAST?!

By: Jimmy | Comments 3 Comments

Hello and welcome back to, what should be stable service one more, The Blackburn Offside. After my month long hell (aka internship) I am back with a vengeance, and now Podcast equipped.
Over the next few days, I’ll be posting write ups or podcast episodes of a review of the month I missed. With this new [...]

 
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September 9th, 2009

Wolves Preview

By: Jimmy | Comments 4 Comments

Proper football returns to us this weekend around the world and, more importantly, at Ewood Park as the Blackburn Rovers take on the Wanderers of Wolverhampton in the fourth league game of the season.
I’ll be honest here; this is a must win game. After this game we have league games against Everton and Villa, with [...]

August 14th, 2009

Man Citeh Preview – and an Invitation for all

By: Jimmy | Comments 1 Comment

Remember this gem from Benni Mac? Let’s hope this happens again tomorrow. The Blackburn Rovers start their 2009-2010 kicking off at home v the lesser of two evils from Manchester. (Thad over there wrote up his ow preview as well. click if you want to read) So what can we expect tomorrow?

June 27th, 2009

Matty Gone For Sure, Givet IN On Perm

By: Jimmy | Comments 3 Comments

Well, Matt Derbyshire has officially completed his move to Olympiakos on a four year deal for an undisclosed fee. Hopefully there was some sort of sell on clause thrown in there in case he blows up over there.
While that was going on, Gael Givet was signed on a permanent deal from Olympique Marseille. As per [...]

May 26th, 2009

News Right From the Players

By: Jimmy | Comments 2 Comments

That took a while….not. Good to have use of the old photo shop Arrows I made again. Good thing I’m not a graphic designer. /fail
Onto more important things. The next bits of news have come straight from sources who directly spoke to players last night at the End of the Year Awards dinner for the [...]



May 22nd, 2009

So Much News

By: Jimmy | Comments 2 Comments

Happy Trails
Andre Ooijer’s long speculated departure back to PSV Eindhoven has been confirmed by the club as well by the Dutchman on the offish site. I for one will always think fondly of the defense man, and think he was always a very vital part of the back line. 29 start 2 sub appearances 2 [...]

April 4th, 2009

Back From Break & Better Than Before

By: Jimmy | Comments 1 Comment

First things first: SAMBA UP FRONT!?!?!?! GENIUS!
Well Rovers took a break for international duty last week and I used that time to catch up on some work and keep my GPA game up. But the lads are back and so am I, but I’m not the one stopping The Spuds’ six-match unbeaten league run.
Rovers started [...]

March 20th, 2009

Some one call the WHAMbulance

By: Jimmy | Comments No Comments

West Ham Hammers tomorrow. Roque: Out. Vince Grella: Out. Ryan Nelsen: Late Fitness Test. Gaël Givet: Late Fitness Test. That’s looking pretty bleak. A spot of good news though, Warnock should be fit and ready to go. Givet has been pretty big for us, and I think him being fit for the game would be [...]

February 14th, 2009

Its Official: Coventry = Boogey Side w/ highlights

By: Jimmy | Comments 4 Comments

Despite a early lead for Rovers after just 2 (TWO) minutes, Coventry added goals from Gunnarsson in the 61st and Doyle in the 76th to take the lead late from Rovers having forced the chances and issues most of the game. It wasn’t till the 93rd that Chris Samba was able to snatch a draw [...]

February 3rd, 2009

The Transfer Window Wrap Up

By: Jimmy | Comments 2 Comments

Well lets see who we brought in shall we?
Nick Blackman (Macclesfield, undisclosed)
Gael Givet (Marseille, loan)
El-Hadji Diouf (Sunderland, £2.8m)
And the Outs?
Frank Fielding (Rochdale, loan)
Eddie Nolan (Preston, undisclosed)
Sergio Peter (Sparta Prague, £500,000)
Jamie Clarke (Rotherham, free)
So only a net loss of £2.5m and we held on to Roque. But Emerton has been ruled out for the season [...]






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