Olympique Marseille players celebrate. Photograph: Frank Perry/AFP
An eight-goal thriller, two refereeing cock-ups, late goals and a shockresult that no-one saw coming: Ligue 1 got off to a cracking start at the weekend, even if the name of the team at the top of the table has a familiar ring to it.
Grenoble, playing [...]

Bayern Munich celebrate winning the Bundesliga. Photograph: Joerg Koch AFP/Getty Images
TV screens were getting positively drenched by salty bodily fluids on Saturday, you couldn’t move for all the money shots: everybody was crying, everywhere.
In Hamburg, Huub Stevens, the Bundesliga’s best-loved Dutch Gruffalo, shed a few tears after his last match in charge at Hamburg. His [...]