Articles tagged with "dutch-eredivisie"
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 ...
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 ...
Half-Way Through: The Transfer Misses
By chris | December 28th, 2007It's that time again, for the lists and the look-backs on what was, what could have been and what shouldn't have been. Today we'll take ...
Transfer Talk: The Christmas Hangover
By chris | December 26th, 2007While I'm sure all the readers got just what they wanted for Christmas, the owners and suits of football clubs had to sit next to ...
Weekend Watch Recap: Taking It Lying Down
By chris | December 17th, 2007The recap and highlights, where available, of the weekend watch. Saturday Valencia v Barcelona: Barca looked like sex on the pitch, got an easy 3 goal victory over ...
Weekend Watch: Clash of the Titans
By chris | December 14th, 2007Your weekly dose of must watch games, and it's all about the big fellas this week. Some of the biggest names in world football are ...
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 ...
Any Dutch Readers Out There? Is This for Real?
By Laurie | December 12th, 2007I'm always hesitant to write about BigSoccer posts, because anybody can post anything in BigSoccer. It's anonymous, so there's no way to verify things. ...
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 ...
Dutch Teams and Fans get their Brawl on
By Bob | November 5th, 2007[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=8udIqGJt-pE[/youtube] The Dutch are famous for playing "total football". They have apparently extended this concept to brawling as well. The video above shows a ...
Van Gaal Wins 4-0 From His Wheelchair
By Daryl | November 4th, 2007Louis van Gaal may be the type of guy you want to avoid a party, so legendary are his social skills, but you've got to ...
Manchester City Reportedly Swoop Up Afonso Alves
By Bob | November 1st, 2007The life of an Internet junkie often means reading a lot about players you rarely see play. One name that has frequently crossed my ...
Eric Addo Banned Four Games for Spitting on Opponent
By Bob | October 26th, 2007[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=PZRSg39IDbQ[/youtube] According to the person who posted the above YouTube video, "Eric Addo is a Fucker". The UEFA discipline folks evidently agree. The PSV ...
Alfonso Alves Scores Seven Unspectacular Goals in a Game
By Bob | October 8th, 2007[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z0zte2vE6yA[/youtube] If you watch a youth soccer game oftentimes there is a player who is so much better than everyone else that he should be playing ...
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar likes to ride his bicycle
By Bob | September 19th, 2007[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=BQbNneMKzsU[/youtube] Ajax's Klaas-Jan Huntelaar has scored 86 goals in 143 in the Dutch Eredivisie and I am fairly convinced that all 86 of them have been ...
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