Brits Abroad: Taking the Mick Roy Keane would no doubt snigger at Mick McCarthy being included in a section entitled 'Brits Abroad', but the former Ireland Coach's short stint with Lyon is just too delicious to be ignored. More

Brits Abroad: A king among princes Anyone who has heard Glenn Hoddle refer to Arsenal's record goalscorer as 'Thierry Hen-ray' may question whether he ever really settled in France, but the truth is he was never more at home than in Ligue 1. More

Feature: Simply the Best With Thierry Henry having broken Arsenal’s scoring record, channel4.com raises the question of whether the mercurial forward can call himself the best Frenchman to have played in England. More

World Cup: Can France win it? There it is, then - mighty Cyprus have been sent packing and Les Bleus are going to the World Cup. But where do they lie on the scale between Angola and Brazil? Will they be partying like it's 1998 or skulking home after another 2002? More

Analysis: Cissé to prove Rafa wrong Djibril Cissé will be desperate to show Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez just what he has been missing when he spearheads the France attack in the forthcoming World Cup qualifiers against Switzerland and Cyprus. More

Feature: Rangers' French lessons Their traditional colours of red, white and blue are not all that Rangers have in common with France. With more and more Ligue 1 talent winging its way to Ibrox, channel4.com's Steve Wilson looks at the latest French revolution to hit British football. More

Feature: Money well spent Even Michael Essien does not think he is worth £24.4m, but channel4.com reckons Chelsea won't regret splashing out on the Ghanaian dynamo. More

Feature: In a class of his own With Zinedine Zidane's shock return to the France team still reverberating around Europe, channel4.com looks at the man, the myth and his amazing career. More

Feature: New boys aiming for survival So it's goodbye to Bastia, Caen and Istres – and a warm welcome back to Nancy, Le Mans and Troyes! The three teams skimmed off the top of last season's Ligue 2 table have all set their sights on survival, but which of them – if any – will survive? More

Feature: 10 Players to Watch in 2005-06 With the new Ligue 1 campaign almost upon us, channel4.com has compiled a list of 10 players who could make their mark in the coming months. Some are new to the French game, others have secured moves to big clubs, but all are desparate to shine. More

Feature: Player of the Season (2004-05): Diarra Much of the summer transfer speculation has centred around Michael Essien, but perhaps Lyon's best piece of business in the off-season has been tying influential Malian ball-winner Mahamadou Diarra to a new deal. More

Feature: Team of the Season (2004-05) Swiss striker Alexander Frei spearheads channel4.com's formidable-looking team of the season, with Lyons' title-clinching midfield unsurprisingly patrolling the middle. We reckon this lot would be a match for anyone. More

Feature: Au revoir à une légende Guy Roux has always had a sense of the dramatic. Whether he is popping his head out from under a model’s bed covers in a TV advert, or knocking on the Auxerre President’s door aged 23, the charismatic trainer has never been afraid to shock. More

Feature: Leader of the pack As Lyon bask in the glory of a fourth consecutive League title, the rest of Ligue 1 will be left scratching its head wondering how to prevent them from making it five next season. Since Jacques Santini guided the club to its first League crown in 2002... More

Feature: Tel père, tel fils With most children idolising their fathers whatever they do in life, Alain Giresse could probably have expected his football-mad son Thibault to own a poster or two of Dad in action. "Actually, his favourite player was Beppe Signori," recounts 'Gigi'... More

Feature: A dying breed The international career of Paris Saint Germain's lanky goalkeeper Lionel Letizi was over before it ever had a chance to take off. Two minutes into his second appearance for Les Bleus, in a friendly away to Russia in 1998, disaster struck... More

Feature: A brief history of hatred France's biggest rivalry will be renewed at the Stade Vélodrome on Sunday as Paris Saint-Germain travel south to play their sworn enemy Marseille. The capital club may be having a disastrous season but they currently hold the bragging rights... More

Feature: One Koji Nakata "Japan international Koji Nakata (not the Nakata who plays for Fiorentina) will sign for Marseille today," announced Libération in January. Thankfully, the one and only Koji Nakata hasn't mastered the language of his tactless hosts yet. More

Feature: Mavuba making waves Rio Antonio Mavuba’s rise has been so dramatic it is hardly surprising that he is setting himself ambitious goals. "Juventus are the club of my dreams but I wouldn't mind playing for Arsenal or Real Madrid either," he said in a recent interview. More

Feature: Boum time in Toon Newcastle boss Graeme Souness believes he has purchased France's next legendary centre-back in Jean-Alain Boumsong. "France feel that he is going to be their first-choice centre-back," enthused the Scot. More

Feature: Pagis applies perfect finish When Raymond Domenech pens his France squad for the crucial World Cup qualifier against Switzerland later this month, it is probably safe to say the name Mickaël Pagis will not enter his head... More

Feature: I'm just ordinary, says Henry Thierry Henry says he is just "ordinary". Yet Arsenal's superstar has won the World Cup, European Championship, two English titles, two FA Cups, two Golden Boots and been voted World Footballer of the Year runner-up for the past two seasons. More