Le Grand Foot , or, LGF if you prefer ,is a clubgowi owned website which has provided free to view previews of all Ligue 1 matches for several seasons, you can still read three match previews per week there, along with lots of additional information about French football, but the other seven can now (from Week 4 onwards) ONLY be read in the clubgowi newletter. That is an additional 266 full match previews per season provided at no additional cost, to clubgowi subscribers.

On matchday 1 I previewed Sochaux's trip to Troyes and spoke about the issues the home side might have with the transition back to L2 and trying to get out of their losing mindset.........

There is a follow up newsletter at 16.00 UK time today with Saturday "morning" J-league notes.