Articles tagged with "dutch-eredivisie"
The Offside Euro 2008 Champion: Charles Snyder
By Dave Martinez | July 11th, 2008Over three weeks of tournament action and only one country stood tall: Sweden. Ibrahimovich proved to be unstoppable in the virtual world, earning ...
Top 15 Goals from Dutch Eredivisie 2007/8
By Daryl | May 30th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkoXehUKcpg[/youtube] There were a lot of goals in the 2007/8 Eredivisie. About ten billion at last count, so well done to Setanta for sorting thruogh the ...
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 ...
Clubs on the Verge of Domestic Titles
By Inara | April 26th, 2008Though there's still several weeks left in most European football leagues, some domestic title races are already over. In Portugal, Porto were declared champions (though ...
Weekend Recap: Heartbreak and/or Male-Bonding Hugs
By Laurie | April 21st, 2008It's that nailbiting time of the season in most leagues, especially for those teams that are close to the top and in the title race, ...
All About Promotion: Who's Coming Up in Europe?
By Laurie | April 17th, 2008The other day we talked about the rather depressing subject of relegation. Today though? The sun is shining, so let's move on to ...
If Relegation Happened Today, Who Would Go Down?
By Laurie | April 15th, 2008Ah, relegation. It's every club's biggest dread. (With the probable exceptions of the EPL's Derby County, or French Ligue 1's Metz, or SPL's ...
Weekend Recap: Cheers and Tears
By Laurie | April 14th, 2008A quick recap of a few of the games from the weekend: Saturday US 1-1 Canada, US wins 6-5 on PKs A recap of this game is here. ...
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. ...
Weekend Watch:
By Laurie | April 11th, 2008A small sampling of the games available this weekend for your viewing pleasure. Saturday US Women's NT vs. Canada Both teams have qualified for the Olympics, ...
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 ...
10 People We'd Like Not To Star In A Sex Tape
By chris | March 25th, 2008Sex tapes with young athletes are one thing, I suppose, for those of you are into that sort of thing. Sex tapes involving the ...
Michael Bradley Should Spend Less Time Practicing Volleys and More Time Leaping Rivers
By Daryl | March 24th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVFBwZXYoXw[/youtube] Bless the Eredivisie, if it doesn't produce the most goal-filled games in Europe*. This weekend was more of the same, as Heerenveen came from 3-1 ...
Wonder Goals Emanating From Benelux
By chris | March 22nd, 2008Alright, at least the first two-thirds. Or maybe not; there may have been phenomenal goals being scored ad nauseam in Luxembourg today, we'd just never ...
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 ...
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 ...
Who's Hot/Who's Not
By chris | February 12th, 2008I think this is rather self-explanatory. Hot.:. Carlo Ancelotti.: I'll be frank regarding Carletto: his substitutions often suck ass. At least whenever I've watched, especially this season. And ...
Weekend Recap: Up on Top
By Laurie | February 11th, 2008A few results from the weekend: Saturday Ghana vs. Cote d’Ivoire. African Cup of Nations 3rd place playoff. I really expected Didier Drogba's Cote d'Ivoire team ...
Weekend Watch: The Scent of Victory
By Laurie | February 8th, 2008Just a few of this weekend's interesting matches: Saturday Ghana vs. Cote d'Ivoire. African Cup of Nations 3rd place playoff. A lot of ...
AlfonsoAfonso Alves Get His Pressure Work Permit
By Daryl | February 5th, 2008
Middlesbrough fans rejoice, for your goal-scoring messiah has received a work permit. Alfonso Afonso Alves - the £12 million Brazilian - had to sit ...
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 ...
Afonso Alves to Boro....
By chris | January 30th, 2008....That is, as soon as he goes through The Dreaded Work Permit Appeal Process, which is the second most dreaded thing in English football behind ...
Weekend Watch Recap: A Mixed Bag
By Martha | January 28th, 2008Saturday Liverpool v Havant and Waterlooville: The minnows acquitted themselves magnificently, twice going ahead in a first half in which they were, by all accounts, the ...
Weekend Watch: Rooting for the Little Guy
By Martha | January 25th, 2008Saturday Liverpool v Havant and Waterlooville: Havant earned their way into the FA Cup fourth round with a 4-2 seeing off of Swansea, a team ...
A New Mid + A Big Wall = Better Valencia?
By Martha | January 20th, 2008Valencia were crushed by Villarreal yesterday, going down 3-0 to their local rivals. The violent upheaval at the end of the first half of the ...
Dutch Trainer Saves The Day
By chris | January 17th, 2008This is what happens when the stars align and everything goes right, creating a moment of perfect comedy. It's in Dutch, but pay close attention, ...
Michael Bradley Set to Leave Heerenveen?
By Laurie | January 17th, 2008Michael Bradley, son of US Coach Bob and the great hope of the US National Team, will probably be leaving Holland this summer for a ...
"You're Indecent."...."No, YOU'RE Indecent."
By chris | January 16th, 2008As I'm sure you've heard, Ronald Koeman left Eindhoven this fall in order to take over the reins in Valencia, where a few noteworthy things ...
Weekend Watch: Get Caught Up
By Daryl | January 11th, 2008Those stubborn Germans are still refusing to fussball spielen, claiming it's too cold outside for that sort of thing. But the Italians and the Dutch ...
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