I heard that Calais beat Bordeaux(the reigning French champs) in the French cup semi-final(3-1 in extra time). They play Nantes in the final. Calais are a French 4th division amateur/semi pro side comprising the usual butcher, baker, grocer etc..
Class!

-- Anonymous, April 14, 2000

BOLD off!

-- Anonymous, April 14, 2000

Can we loan their team for next years FA Cup.

-- Anonymous, April 14, 2000

There was a crackin' report of the match - and the massive celebrations - running on BBC TV News yesterday - Thurs, and not a single replay of "Tudor's down for Newcastle..." Below is from BBC News site:

Fourth division Calais have made history by beating champions Bordeaux 3-1 to book a place in the French Cup Final. All the goals came in extra-time.

The win was so unexpected some of the early editions of the French newspapers reported that Bordeaux were through to the final before the match was over.

But goals in the last eight minutes from Matthieu Millien and Mickael Gerard ensured Calais became the first amateur team to reach the final, beating a side which included one French World Cup winner and three Euro 2000 prospects.

Calais coach Ladislas Lozano, a Spaniard, said: "This evening Calais went down in history. We have written one of the most beautiful pages in French football history."

Nantes pulled off a 1-0 win in Monaco in the other semi-final and will meet Calais in the final at the Stade de Paris.

Calais beat three professional sides en route to the final. More than 5,000 people poured into Calais central square to welcome home the heroes.

"This outdoes the night that France won the World Cup. I don't even think that there were as many people around as tonight," one 70-year- old fan declared.

Club president Jean-Marc Puissesseau was barely able to believe it was all real. "I have to keep pinching myself that we are on the way to the French Cup final," he said. "We climbed onto the bus in a daze as if we couldn't quite grasp what the team had achieved."

No fourth division side has previously made the French Cup final.

-- Anonymous, April 14, 2000

Who was the 'French World Cup Winner'? It wasn't 'apostophe' by any chance was it?

-- Anonymous, April 14, 2000