Articles tagged with "ajax"
Ismail Aissati to head off to Ajax
By j | July 18th, 2008PSV has confirmed that Midfielder Ismail Aissati is headed to rival Ajax after the clubs agreed to a fee reputedly in the €10m range. While ...
Welcome Francisco Javier Rodríguez
By j | July 14th, 2008With the first day of training camp, I have to be honest much of my attention turned to new Defender Francisco Javier Rodríguez who came ...
Rogue Agent On The Loose
By chris | June 4th, 2008You'd think in today's day and age people couldn't just to pretend to be somebody else in the public eye. The internet has so much ...
Phenoms Taking Their Names Off The Market
By chris | May 9th, 2008It's just the cool thing to do, apparently. Two of the biggest names in world football 25 and under in Samir Nasri and Klaas-Jan Huntelaar ...
Dutch FA Swaps Cash For Footballing Integrity
By chris | April 28th, 2008The KNVB has taken the advice of nearly everybody involved with Dutch football and scrapped the playoff system which decides who goes to Europe and ...
Weekend Watch: Don't Get Chicken
By Laurie | April 18th, 2008Big weekend for plenty of teams. Let's hope they keep their heads. Saturday Real Zaragoza vs Recreativo Huelva While the La Liga title race hasn't quite lived up ...
Johan Cruyff finally reveals why he didn't play in 1978
By Rob | April 17th, 2008The answer to one of football's great mysteries has been revealed. In 1974, Holland, led by Johan Cruyff waltzed through the World Cup to a ...
Dutch Match Postponed Due to Flaming Toilet Paper
By Laurie | April 14th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiLxBDIT4WE[/youtube] Anybody speak Dutch? Was this match really postponed due to flaming toilet paper? That's certainly what it looks like in the video. ...
Everybody Wants Them Some Huntelaar & Mario Gomez
By chris | April 3rd, 2008We're hitting that part of the season where transfer rumors go from "ah, we'll see in six months" to "oh, maybe we should be thinking ...
A Name To Remember: Luis Suarez
By chris | March 28th, 2008This one's almost cheating, because he's so good already a lot of people know his name. However, his exploits have been mildly overshadowed by the ...
Dutch Police Clog up the Eredivise Title Race (sorry)
By Daryl | March 10th, 2008Not a great week for Ajax fans. First the return of the hallowed Johan Cruyff (who's like the Kevin Keegan of Ajax, except he knows ...
Weekend Watch: Crowd Control
By chris | March 7th, 2008Saturday Dinamo Zagreb v Hadjuk Split: The Eternal Derby. The teams, and fans, dislike each other. Dinamo is running away with the Croatian title (14 points ...
Disorganised Mercato Thoughts before Madrid
By Marco | March 1st, 2008* game ''review'' is here Here’s a Pot-Pourri, a Melting pot, a ramassis of Mercato stuff : Let's get right in to this ! So it seems like ...
Great European Cup Players #1 Johan Cruyff
By Rob | February 25th, 2008As a series to keep everyone reading between Champions League games, I'll now and then profile a great player who has played in the Champions ...
Who's Hot/Who's Not
By chris | February 24th, 2008Hot.:. Carlos Tevez.: By the time this guy retires, every team he plays for is going to erect a statue in his honor outside the stadium. ...
Ajax Get the Marco Van Basten-Johan Cruyff Dream Team
By Daryl | February 22nd, 2008Looks like Ajax are getting it together. After bringing in the legend that is Johan Cruyff in a sort of grand overseeer role, the Eredivisie ...
Johan Cruyff Brought in to Turn Ajax Around
By Daryl | February 20th, 2008It wasn't so long ago that Ajax were one of the powers in European football, with a youth system everyone wanted to copy. But it's ...
Weekend Watch Recap: Smart Move
By Daryl | February 4th, 2008Saturday Portsmouth vs Chelsea Nicolas Anelka got his first Premier League goal for Chelsea after Joe Cole's light as a feather knock down gave the Frenchman an ...
Weekend Watch: New Beginnings
By Daryl | February 1st, 2008Saturday Portsmouth vs Chelsea Harry Redknapp gets to road-test his January signings Jermain Defoe and Milan Baros when he takes on Avram Grant's gang at Fratton Park. ...
PSV Takes Down Ajax
By chris | January 30th, 2008And in the process make a significant dent as they dig their way to a fourth straight Eredivisie title. Despite being lapped in quality scoring ...
Dream Comings and Goings in Milan
By Martha | January 9th, 2008Like clockwork, the Karim Benzema To Milan story has come back around, again thanks to something the kid himself has told the press. Two months ...
A Dirty, Dirty (in a Good Way) Goal
By Martha | December 30th, 2007Untitled from Xavi on Vimeo. It's not quite everyone but Scotland and England that have stopped for the break -- the last round in the Eredivisie ...
Police Trying To Ruin Eredivisie Fun
By chris | December 13th, 2007Expect Dutch football fans to be pounding Ice-T's anthem this weekend as the Dutch police look to cancel two of the biggest fixtures of the ...
Transfer Talk: Christmas Lists Filling Up
By chris | December 12th, 2007It's that time of year again, when everybody's making their wishes and checking them twice. Same goes for all the big boys of world football, ...
Origins of the Infamous 1982 Cruyff Penalty
By Daryl | November 17th, 2007Remember this famous Johan Cruyff penalty for Ajax in 1982? Instead of shooting at goal like mere mortals, Cruyff passed the ball to teammate Jesper ...
Little Closer
By Adam | August 16th, 2007Half of the 3rd qualifying round is over. As expected, all the 1st leg ties contained lots of ebullience and thrill. We have a ...
Arsene Wenger Tells It Like It Is
By Trent | August 7th, 2007At least according to Arsene Wenger. This video is the Boss' comments after the win over Ajax and the capture of the Amsterdam Tournament. ...
Van Persie Strong, Ljungberg "Weak", Hulk Smash
By Trent | August 5th, 2007I think that Robin van Persie is not going to shy away from what will have to be his increased importance to the Gunners this ...
Ajax 0-1 Arsenal: Amsterdam Tournament Final
By Trent | August 4th, 2007Robin van Persie's 80th 87th-minute strike earned Arsenal its second preseason trophy. And I'm already feeling good about choosing RVP as one of ...
It looks official: Babel inked
By Brian | July 12th, 2007You go for a little jog, you come back, and your team has a new left winger. Not bad. Despite Chelsea fans calling us the ...
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