Articles tagged with "dutch-eredivisie"
Moestafa El Kabir Will Slide Tackle Anything. Even a Camera.
By Daryl | October 3rd, 2009Got to love 101GreatGoals. They don't find just goals, they also find random stuff like the video you see above. The man you see slide tackling ...
Nathan Rutjes: The Best Hair in World Football.
By chris | August 27th, 2009And by best we mean, of course, worst. Nathan's a 25 year old midfielder for Sparta Rotterdam with questionable decision making abilities. And with that ...
Jonathan de Guzman Continues Torturing Canadians
By chris | August 24th, 2009As Giuseppe Rossi became, officially, Giuseppe Rossi this summer - you know, finally fulfilled that enormous hype on the international scene - Jonathan de Guzman ...
PSV 4-3 Ajax: Eredivisie = Goals, Goals, Goals
By Daryl | August 16th, 2009The ever-high scoring Dutch Eredivisie provided another goalfest this weekend, with PSV beating Ajax 4-3 at Philips Stadion. Things couldn't have started much worse for PSV, ...
The Forgotten Woodwork
By chris | August 3rd, 2009[101 Great Goals] The corner flag is the underappreciated woodwork of the modern game. While the goalposts get all the glory - and the occasional kiss ...
Puma Bows to the Power of the People
By chris | June 23rd, 2009Have you ever seen your team's new kit and felt the inexplicable sudden urge to go shopping at Abercrombie & Fitch, or some other less-than-stylish ...
Eredivise Goals of the Season & The Poor Man's Messi.
By chris | May 13th, 2009Strictly by percentages, the Eredivisie must have some top class goals. What with their defenses resembling Haarlem's leaky dike and the uber-technical Dutch taking part. ...
Coaching Carousel: It's All About Money & Self-Belief
By chris | May 7th, 2009As much as we may criticize making career decisions simply for the sake of money, it is refreshing when someone calls a spade a spade ...
AZ Tempt The Fates And Win A Bittersweet Title.
By chris | April 20th, 2009One title down: AZ, with nine fingers firmly on the trophy since roughly November, expectedly won their second Dutch Eredivisie championship this weekend - becoming ...
Ron Jans Becomes The 10th Man & Who Knew Marijuana Was A Banned Substance?
By chris | March 9th, 2009Ron Jans is quickly becoming The Offside's favorite Eredivisie gaffer - yes, even more than Steve McClaren and his Dutch accent. The last time his ...
Dutch Fans Are Mean. Funny, But Mean.
By chris | February 26th, 2009That's FC Volendam goalkeeper Jeroen Verhoeven. He is, to put it nicely, plump. Quite plump. In fact he might just be the only player in ...
The Odd Tumble of the Eredivisie
By chris | February 19th, 2009It has been a strange, strange year in Dutch football. The clubs currently partaking in the Dutch top flight have won a combined 49 Eredivisie ...
Ron Jans Gives Ref A Cheeky Bird
By chris | December 30th, 2008The simple fact that Groningen boss Ron Jans decided to flip off the ref is nice, but the manner in which he did it is ...
Joost Volmer Shows Emmanuel Adebayor How To Throw A Proper Elbow
By chris | December 22nd, 2008Big controversy in the weekend's big Prem game. Emmanuel Adebayor, sitting on a yellow, lazily flailed his arm (6:40 above), which graced Alvaro Arebloa, who ...
Welcome to the Luis Suarez Show
By chris | September 26th, 2008Last week was nice. Got to see the Ajax boy hit a cheeky spoon over the keeper, putting another notch in his highlight reel. But ...
The European Weekend
By chris | September 20th, 2008After kicking off the Champions League & UEFA Cup, Europe goes back home and hasn't left us wanting, giving us some very big and very ...
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 ...
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