Articles tagged with "netherlands"
Ol' Fast Legs is Back
By Daryl | August 11th, 2008Time really is a great healer. Turns out it can heal career-ending injuries. Because four years after retiring from the game with a dodgy knee, former ...
Ruud van Nistelrooy Looks a Bit Like a Horse. So What?
By Daryl | August 8th, 2008Sometimes footballers have a passing resemblance to something or someone else, and sometimes it's worth a chuckle. But most of the time it isn't. Especially ...
Otman Bakkal, Dirk Marcellis and Erik Pieters off to Olympics
By j | July 21st, 2008With Erik Pieters, Otman Bakkal and Dirk Marcellis off to the Netherlands Olympic team training sessions, the club went through morning training session in the ...
Nigel De Jong?
By j | July 16th, 2008An assorted group of reports are linking Nigel De Jong of Hamburger SV in the German Bundesliga and a possible move to St. James' Park. ...
PSV at the Olympics
By j | July 13th, 2008The Netherlands Olympic squad will proudly have a strong PSV component. We have four players that have been added to the thirty-six man provisional ...
Erik Pieters joins PSV
By j | July 13th, 2008Of Footballs many robust moves in the off-season, one that has got far too little attention is the move of left-back Erik Pieters to PSV ...
Daily Dose, 07.03.08
By Laurie | July 3rd, 2008Some news to read as you have "Highway to Hell" played at your funeral: Fabio Capello lounges around in Speedos. With photographic proof. (And ...
Netherlands 3-0 Italy: ADP's Euro 2008 Adventure Didn't Start in the Best of Ways...
By Marco P. | June 10th, 2008. Boy, that was a rough Monday for everyone huh? Well... not everyone... not anyone wearing orange certainly. For the people wearing blue though... ouch! . . ADP came ...
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 ...
South American Euros
By Lugo | May 24th, 2008In this day of the official birth of the south american union I'll take the occasion to make the list of (confirmed or potential) representatives ...
When Ruud Played for Netherlands
By Laurie | May 10th, 2008This is unrelated to tonight's game, but I stumbled on this video while I was researching a "Classic Euro Moments" post for our Euro 2008 ...
Weekly Poll: Who Will Win Euro 2008?
By Laurie | May 9th, 2008It's time for our weekly "Who Will Win Euros" Poll. Last week's vote was close, but in the end it was Germany who won out with ...
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 ...
Snapshot: Negative Comments
By Jan | April 1st, 2008This has nothing to do with the Bundesliga or German football or football or anything actually. But the blogger of the Netherlands World Cup blog ...
Vennegor and Niculae represent SPL with goals
By Ian Rose | March 26th, 2008In today's crazy international action, most Scottish eyes were on the 1-1 draw with Croatia. But SPL club fans could look to a few ...
Don't Have Guus To Kick Around The Rumor Mill Anymore
By chris | March 25th, 2008(Go here to check out that ingenious pic full size.) Not too long ago you couldn't hear the name "Guus Hiddink" without hearing "Chelsea FC" somewhere ...
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 ...
Classic Snapshot: Frank Rijkaard and Rudi Völler
By Jan | December 12th, 2007A follow up to the Johan Cruijff post, as I thought I could just as well turn this day into Dutch-German football rivalry day at ...
After the draw: I'm satisfied
By Ian Rose | November 25th, 2007The World Cup draw is over, and here's Scotland's group: Group 9 Netherlands Scotland Norway Macedonia Iceland Not a bad draw. Holland has to be considered one of the weaker 1-seeds, ...
You Snooze, You Lose Your Place in the Team
By Daryl | October 14th, 2007Liverpool's Ryan Babel was dropped from the Dutch first eleven yesterday for oversleeping. Apparently he twice overslept and missed team meetings before the game against ...
Mark von Bommel
By Jan | August 21st, 2007You may or may not know that Bayern Munich's Mark van Bommel isn't on friendly terms with Dutch national team coach Marco van Basten - ...
Anfield Banter: Finney inks new deal, A new kid in the scope, Babel defies Van Basten, & Apparently Rafa really wants that guy
By Brian | July 23rd, 2007* Steve Finnan, arguably the best right back in the Premiership last season, has been rewarded for his efforts with a three year contract. ...
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 ...
Is Ryan Babel on the way?
By Brian | July 8th, 2007Wow, this one is sort of a shocker, but at least it's a somewhat believable one. Apparently we've put in a £6.75m bid to ...
Separated at Birth? Habib Beye and Boy Waterman Look Scarily Similar
By Sam | June 25th, 2007Marseille defender Habib Beye of Senegal, and AZ Alkmaar goalkeeper Boy Waterman of the Netherlands. Whoa.
Dutch Delight: Goals, Tricks and Babes from the 2006/2007 Eredivisie
By Bob | May 31st, 2007I'll admit that I did a fairly lousy job covering the Dutch League this past season, but I promise that will change in the future. ...
The Daily Diatribe: Will Kuyt be the next victim of Van Bastien's ego?, The Takeover is Complete, Momo go bye-bye?
By Brian | March 27th, 2007* There is in-depth coverage over at the Netherlands World Cup blog regarding the current situation with the Dutch Nationals following their uninspiring, goalless home ...
Dutch Finally Win a World Cup
By Bob | December 11th, 2006Who needs Johan Cruyff or Marco van Basten when you have Andries Smit on your side! Who is Andries Smit? He is your 2006 FIFA ...
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