Fourth tier side Le Puy created one of the stories of the Coupe de France this season knocking out struggling Ligue 1 outfit Montpellier in convincing fashion The hosts from Auvergne opened the scoring in the 43rd minute before a flurry of goals near the end of the game sparked wild celebration in the 75th the National 2 side have added another Ligue 1 side to their collection of Coupe de France scalps Espaly will be one of the lowest sides in the competition in the next round and they will face none other than the current Ligue 1 Champions in Paris Saint-Germain They managed to knock out third tier outfit Dijon on penalties in their iconic Stade du Viouzou on Friday when the team and supporters sat to watch the draw for the next round there were wild celebrations when they were drawn against PSG yesterday evening the cafe was full to the brim and there had already been shouting when the OM ball was drawn We are a family club and it was my dream." Another massive shock took place involving a Ligue 1 club when fourth tier Stade Briochin managed to knock out Didier Digard and Le Havre at home A solitary goal from Stan Janno in the 80th minute was enough to secure a historic result for the Breton side The outfit from Saint-Brieuc will now face Ligue 2 BKT Annecy in the Round of 32 hoping to create yet another upset in January High-flying Dunkerque have been impressive in Ligue 2 this season and are now taking that energy into the Coupe de France where they managed to beat high-flying Ligue 1 side Auxerre away from home at the Stade Abbé-Deschamps Enzo Bardeli's goal in the 26th minute was the difference for Les Maritimes against the top flight club As their reward they will face amateur side Hagueneau after the winter break Remember iconic Angers captain and Senegal international Cheikh Ndoye He scored for fourth tier side AS Cannes to knock out Ligue 2 Grenoble on Saturday in a 3-1 win The former Red Star FC and Birmingham City man has been plying his trade in the fourth division and is once again shining at the national level The Côte d'Azur side will face either Tours or Lorient in the next round in January.  >>Recap: PSG need pens to see off Lens in Coupe de France Cymru WU17 head to France this week for Round 2 of their UEFA qualifiers with added inspiration as the pathway to the senior team continues to reward impressive performances from those coming through the intermediate ranks The opening match of the new UEFA Nations League campaign against Italy in Monza saw Cymru senior team head coach Rhian Wilkinson hand a first start to 18-year old Mayzee Davies and a senior debut to 17-year old Mared Griffiths Both impressed with Davies claiming the Player of the Match award for her unwavering display in the centre of defence against a talented Italian front-line Now Cymru WU17 head coach Peter Wilson believes this added motivation can help inspire his side to more success “Mayzee was in one of the first teams I coached and we took her to an Under-15 tournament in Portugal when she was just 13-years old,” he explained but starting for the senior team and being player of the match is a proud moment for everyone involved in the pathway “I’ve worked with Mared throughout the age groups too so we’re buzzing for both of them and we’re excited for the future “Hopefully this is just the start of a conveyor belt of players getting these opportunities and the exposure that will lead to them progressing in their professional club careers as well “When we went to Portugal back in October I pulled up pictures from when Mayzee and then Mared had played for the different age groups in the exact same stadium to show them that this could be one of you so can you go on?’ Mared still pops in to see the girls as her sister Cadi is in the Academy That will be a special moment for everyone.” The Cymru WU17 squad progressed to Round 2 of their UEFA qualifiers by retaining their place in League A in those matches in Portugal with victory over Slovenia on the final day sealing their place the side returned there for three friendly fixtures against Denmark Iceland and the hosts in preparation for the next challenge that starts with a match against France in Bourges on 5 March Group A2 then continues for Wilson’s side with two matches in Saint-Germain-du-Puy against Scotland on 8 March and Slovakia three days later The group winners will qualify for the finals that will take place in the Faroe Islands in May “They are three very different challenges,” said Wilson “The French we know are going to be technical they’re going to have a lot of the ball and they’re going to move it well So obviously we’ve got to be ready for that and we’ve got to be prepared to defend and do the right things They’ll punish us on little mistakes and that’s what we’ve seen in other games The flip-side to that is they actually dropped points against some lower nations in the last round “Scotland we know is going to be physical and a proper battle They won their group in the autumn so they’re going to be strong We’ve got to match them in a lot of areas that we’ve probably not been tested in as much this year I think the Denmark game in January can probably put us in good stead for the first two games We will see what Slovakia bring in the first couple of games and hopefully then we can get a positive result against them.” The three friendlies in January enabled Wilson and his staff to experiment with his squad and his approach to these upcoming qualifiers “We tried some really new things,” he added We used that camp to prep ideas for this one so it was successful overall in terms of what we wanted to get out of it We’re getting better and we’re getting to where we want to be but now we’ve really got to show what we’re about.” Cymru WU17 squad: Orla HOWARD (Blackburn Rovers) Ashley GRIFFITHS (FAW Girls Academy South) Somoraa FLETCHER (FAW Girls Academy South) The New Saints come from behind to take Nomads crown in JD Welsh Cup final Project Chwarae: FAW to undertake a review of weather-related postponements in grassroots football Cardiff City defeat Wrexham to lift Bute Energy Welsh Cup Close ModalLearn more from FA WalesSign up to receive all things FAW We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data – view our privacy policy by clicking here © 2025 The Football Association of Wales * We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data – view our privacy policy by clicking here Antoine d’Agata travels 1500 kilometres through the under-represented region in search of the phantoms feeding the nation’s gilets jaunes protests Antoine d’Agata In early 2019, French Magnum photographer Antoine d’Agata and French-Tunisian author and actor Mehdi Belhaj Kacem drove through the region known in France as the diagonal du vide  Stretching across the nation – from the Belgian border in the north-east to the Pyrenees in the south-west – the disparate geographies of the area are unified by a low-density of industry Sharing the responsibilities of driving the pair navigated this ‘ghost’ France In the writer’s view this is the France that is home to the underrepresented This is the France to which the birthing and powering of the nation’s ongoing anti-government gilets jaunes (yellow vests) protests are attributed which started in late 2018 – initially in protest at rising petrol taxes What follows is a selection of d’Agata’s images from the 339 towns villages and hamlets the pair passed through accompanied by Belhaj Kacem’s essay on the diagonale and it’s role – and that of areas like it – in France’s current political face-off D’Agata will – alongside Sohrab Hura – be leading a London workshop on alternative approaches to photography in June. More information can be found here refers to a series of places which are among the most underprivileged in French territory We want to feel the pulse of the France that has given rise to the now-famous gilets jaunes The title of a movie that marked me long ago comes back to my mind: Ghosts of the Civil Dead The confrontation between the French government and the gilets jaunes has pitted two types of ghost against one another: the sovereign French Gods – the “Jupiterian” entity of big finance in its twilight years whose decadence has nothing on the decline of Ludwig II of Bavaria; versus this unrepresented France popularised as understood by the Situationists The dialogue between these two entities is a dialogue of the deaf The France whose representation is non-existent fails to make itself heard by the France that only exists within in itself only a very vague concept before our visit The first day of the journey there is a fog such as I have never seen before in my life blanketing everything and lasting until early afternoon of the many industrial hells that we are going to come across: abandoned factories huge sanatoriums left deserted for years and seemingly made for horror movie sets the biggest human congregations we come across will be at McDonald’s There are what I call “road-towns”: houses strung along streets which seem empty despite being inhabited where one asks oneself how their tenants manage to escape depression We lean over a lake where a serial killer once dropped the corpses of his victims: paradoxically it is as if the spirits of these underaged martyrs were charging the place with a bit of soul We also come across two roadside prostitutes who enliven the technological desert in which the human being seems not to even have a minor role anymore I tell myself that technology is really no longer serving the human being The lorry drivers are serving the lorries and not the lorries their drivers “La société se croit seule mais il y a quelqu’un.” [Society believes that it is alone wrote Antonin Artaud (Marx could have said the same thing) wary and resentful of any stratification of representation was required to make pictures of this haunted France these beings whose spectral president says that they are nothing neglected by the media and robbed of political representation are like a huge deafened scream that I could hear throughout our trip the journey’s highlight was the gigantic abandoned sanatorium: I could hear the voices of the thousands of mad people who had lived in this place Madness is nothing more than a political fact They want us to believe that one is born mad when actually I dream of an organisation that would make madness the central part of its discourse There is no other madness than the current organisation of society Our leaders do not seem to want to cure it The rags of the Capital wearing their yellow vests come to groan at the ears of those robots which we are crossing like ghosts ourselves have chosen to dedicate our lives to the spectral fringes of society this under-represented France that haunts the media and those governmental ‘shop windows’ designed to perpetuate the oligarcho-financial suicide of the planet “Never before has censorship been so complete Never before has the opinion of those who have been made to believe been less authorised to express itself whenever it is about a choice that will affect their actual lives has it been allowed to lie to them with such a total absence of consequence” The gilets jaunes made their voices heard loud and clear: theirs is the voice of the absence of representation in this country The powers simply concluded that this voice was of no importance Humanity has to keep on committing suicide with its eyes wide open We make two symbolic detours: The first one through the village where Georges Bataille lived out the last years of his life The second to the village where Debord lived the last years of his life and where he committed suicide who rightly went the furthest in undermining this stratification of representation by weaponising its tool par excellence: thinking Two suicided of the society of the spectacle We thought of also visiting the psychiatric hospital where Artaud had lived These ghosts are haunting the gilets jaunes movement without requiring them to be aware of it I reflect that it is a pity that this movement does not have its Marx to hand as he exists under the form of a holy trinity they would have gone as far as they wanted: the fall of representative corruption where politicians are no more than holograms of what is being represented All the villages that we visit are like deserts everybody stays home watching TV or surfing the internet There is no greater serial killer than these What we are visiting is a dismembered corpse vivisected to its most intimate components Traversing the diagonal du vide is a journey through these countless vacuums that the decomposing action of ultra-liberalism has sown on its way Those vacuums are now expressing themselves through the voice of the gilets jaunes A ghostly concert played at a national and world level If there is an artist capable of making these vacuums speak to make present what can not be represented There is a visual “spectralism” about Antoine It is about recording the spasms of humanity that is committing suicide which has access to all the information needed to know what it is doing We documented this suicide during a week of shared driving and of exploring a place between two worlds which has become unliveable: a world of a spectral representation of reality and a world that is excluded from this representation Humanity is committing suicide: such is the diagonal du vide Le premier et le second tour des élections départementales se tiendront le 20 et le 27 juin. © Radio France - Cécile Quéguiner ici Berry Publié le mardi 11 mai 2021 à 10:49 les électeurs sont appelés aux urnes pour choisir les membres de leur conseil départemental Découvrez les candidats en lice dans les 19 cantons du Cher Alors que le premier tour des élections départementales se tiendra le 20 juin prochain la préfecture du Cher a rendu public ce lundi les candidatures pour les 19 cantons du département Cher - L’info près de chez vous Recevez chaque jour l’essentiel de l’actualité locale Nathalie Arthaud était à Bourges ce mardi soir La porte-parole de Lutte Ouvrière a obtenu ses 500 parrainages et sera donc candidate à la présidentielle Élections départementales : la droite en ballotage favorable dans le Cher Cher Les électeurs votaient ce dimanche 20 juin 2021 pour le premier tour des élections départementales Le Cher devrait rester à droite dimanche prochain la gauche ne semble pas en mesure d'empocher trois cantons supplémentaires Élections départementales 2021 : tous les résultats du deuxième tour dans le Cher Cher Après le premier tour dimanche dernier les électeurs votaient ce dimanche 27 juin pour élire leurs conseillers départementaux la droite conserve la majorité au conseil départemental Formé au club, Baptiste Canelhas quitte la Berrichonne Football pour six mois Châteauroux Après une première partie d'année 2021 marquée par des performances convaincantes Baptiste Canelhas est peu à peu retourné sur le banc des remplaçants Il va donc essayer de trouver du temps de jeu en étant prêté à Créteil Autour de chez vous Bourges : Orpheopolis accueille une trentaine d'orphelins de policiers chaque année Bourges 20h32