Southend French XI - Allez les Bleus!

[Yorkshire Blue]

In honour of the latest World Champions -and our new signing Timothee Dieng - here's my attempt at a Southend French XI.

Improvements welcome (and needed)

GK - a tricky one. I'm struggling to decide between Sofianne Zaaboub because he likes wearing gloves or Bilel as he once volunteered to go in if our keeper was sent off. As Tunisia failed to pick him for the World Cup and he's keen, I'm claiming Bilel Mohnsi for France and he gets the nod.
RB - George Parris - he was crap and so is this selection. Sorry.
LB - Jackie French - it gets better, honest
CB - Dorian Dervite - French and good. Told you it gets better
CB - Timothee Dieng - welcome Timothee. You may find this team easier to get into than the Southend 1st XI.
RM - Sofianne Zaaboub - the crossbar at Dartford is still shaking from his effort there in a pre-season friendly in 2010.
CM - Jean-Francois Christophe - probably best remembered for his last minute overhead goal against Col Ewe. Take that Anthony Wordsworth and John White!
CM - Regis Coulbault - probably best remembered for his goal against Gillingham in that match when we trailed for 89 minutes and somehow won 2-1.
LM - Frank Nouble - probably best remembered for not scoring. probably best forgotten.
CF - Francis Laurent - best remembered for his rubber legs display against Leeds. We should mention that performance more often. He was awesome that match.
CF - Amadou Ba gets in ahead of Sada N'Diaye on the strength of the fact I've never had to chant for him to be sent off because it's the worse tackle I've ever seen and we'd probably be better off with 10 men instead of him anyway.

 

[Napster]

No Mvoto?

 

[Rattus Norvegicus]

Francis Laurent - my two "big" memories are his performance against Chelsea away in the F.A. Cup when he pushed us back up the pitch with his ball control and skill.

And Carlisle away - he stood on the wing and no-one wanted to pass to him. Not sure what was happening there but we effectively had 10 men on the pitch.

 

[C C Csiders]

No Joe Frere Jacques at CB?

 

[Ailsa Road Shrimper]

Marc-Antoine Fortune deserves a place in our current squad as well as this one

 

[TrevorFitzpatrickHattrick]

Sada N'Diaye, whilst Senegalese, spent most of his playing career in France. Who could forget that sending off at Brentford when he nearly decapitated an opposition player?!

 

[OldBlueLady]

Laurent was also unplayable in an away game at Stockport.

Marc-Antoine Fortune deserves a place in our current squad as well as this one

Absolutely.

 

[Benfleet A1]

Freddy Eastwood.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Sada N'Diaye, whilst Senegalese, spent most of his playing career in France. Who could forget that sending off at Brentford when he nearly decapitated an opposition player?!

Marc-Antoine Fortune deserves a place in our current squad as well as this one

I'm not doing very well with this. Good point on Sada N'Diaye being Senegalese - the French N'Diaye was Alassano the Palace loanee and absolute unit who got sacked.

I'd forgotten French Guiana was an overseas department of France, as is Guadeloupe so Miguel Comminges also qualifies.


I'd also forgotten the Southend careers of Bedsente Gomis and Adem Bouzid.
Along with Alassano N'Diaye that truly is a midfield to forget with 1 JPT start and 2 league appearances between them.



..............................Mohsni
Dieng.... Dervite..... M'voto.... Comminges
Laurent... Christophe... Coubault... Zaaboub
.........................Ba...... Fortune

Subs Gomis, N'Diaye, Bouzid

That's quite a balanced team.

 

[Rattus Norvegicus]

Freddy Eastwood.

Yep - he and his whole family used to go over to France on the ferry so I think that should count as much as his Welsh connections - he only ever went to Wales to play against Swansea, isn't it boyo?

 

[southendkid]

If we're going to pick an Englishman with a French sounding name surely we can do better than Nouble...

 

[Benfleet A1]

Yep - he and his whole family used to go over to France on the ferry so I think that should count as much as his Welsh connections - he only ever went to Wales to play against Swansea, isn't it boyo?

Glad somebody got it.

 

[Zeuss]

Didn’t we have a dead good striker who later famously got arrested in Paris?.....Stan Collymort .

 

[Blueronron]

Sada N'Diaye, whilst Senegalese, spent most of his playing career in France. Who could forget that sending off at Brentford when he nearly decapitated an opposition player?!

I fairness to SN he did score the winner away to Plymouth to stop the horrendous run with not winning away when Martin was manager

 

[MK Shrimper]

Managed by Stephan Caisse-Fils.

 

[Sleaford Shrimper]

Managed by Stephan Caisse-Fils.

Presumably assisted by Paul Labrosse. Other possibilities might be Paul Ragout-Rocher or Philippe Lebrun or Robert Nouvelhomme.