Category: Guingamp

Guingamp, the giant small club

En Avant de Guingamp is one of the smallest clubs of the French championship, if not the smallest, with a budget of 25 million euros for this season. Guingamp is also a small town of less than 8000 inhabitants. Yesterday, the club played Paris Saint Germain, The club of the French Capital city. With a budget of 490 euros for this season, and an array of star players, PSG was unbeaten this season, until yesterday.

That says a lot about money and talent. You can have all the money and talent in the world, That doesn’t make you invincible. The giant PSG has feet of clay. Yesterday, they played very badly and lost. They were humiliated by a small, rural town. As for us, we are proud of supporting Guingamp.

A breton funeral

There was a funeral in town yesterday. A well-known local figure was being buried. I was in town when the procession came out of the basilica. Since the roads had been closed for the occasion, I watched the procession walk passed. It was impressive and sobering. The bagad (pipe band) was leading the way, followed by flag bearers, the hearse before the rest of the crowed. The man wasn’t vey old. He was in his sixties I would say. I had seen him around the music school a few times. He was well known for having started the local Bagad as well as the St-loup festival, a well known breton dance competition. There’s an article in Ouest-France: Les adieux au président de la Saint-Loup

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