Comments on: Bert van Marwijk at home in South Africa

By: Area Man

Area Man — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:26:38 +0000

correction, i meant to type tex winter was the offenisve maestro. he created the triangle offense.

By: Area Man

Area Man — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:24:26 +0000

“…when they go to a bball game, they go to see (or went) Michael Jordan, not so much the Bulls, or Kobe Bryant instead of the Lakers.”

This statement might apply to casual fans, but not serious fans. When MJ was playing, sure he was the man, but I can tell you all you want to know about the Bulls from the 90s. When Detroit had their thug linueup, the Bulls would counter with a guy named Scott Williams. A guy named Hodges would come of the bench an pop ‘3s’ left and right. Tex Winter was their defensive coach/maestro. Sure MJ was the draw, true fans appreciated the entire team. Shoot, I even remember their trainers, name, Chip Schaefer.

By: Jess

Jess — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:24:18 +0000

Yeah finnister!! Now I get to read the blog for football and romance. Now if only I could teach my husand to mix the two! Congrats sir.

By: Jeroen

Jeroen — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:42:14 +0000

portugal not qualifying would be justice.

By: sonneveld

sonneveld — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:43:10 +0000

unless portugal don’t qualify heha

By: Sol

Sol — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:46:37 +0000

@Carlos, I pretty much feel the same way, so I’m having a hard time seeing Brazil as our “enemy/rival” as well. But still, we should want some payback for 94/98.

Wouldn’t it be nice that this WC we got the chance to payback Brazil, Portugal, put the final nail to the Italian coffin and show Germany how a world cup SHOULD be won?

By: Carlos

Carlos — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:10:34 +0000

Sol – Brazil are my second favourite team. They do play the beautiful game and the 1982 side was my all time favourite. Can’t hate them. They beat us fair and square (if not lucky) in 94/98, in both games we could have been luckier (Kluivert??). Only ugly game was 74. But then they were all of a sudden dethroned by a team playing more Brazilian than them, a major shock.

By: Sol

Sol — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:02:28 +0000

What about Brazil, they speak Portuguese.

Not to mention they threw us out of the WC race both WC’s before Portugal and we still haven’t had our revenge on them. I think there’s room for a little more hostility towards Brazil. We’ve already taken our revenge on Argentina (WC 98), Italy (EC 08) and Germany (EC 88). Allthough we still need to beat Germany in a WC I think.

Naturally, Portugal is a different story, more to it than just a lost match in a WC.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:00:26 +0000

Finn ? Why is that sad ? ferenc and I have become good buddies ? We all have one thing in common. Love oranje and good football and have a common dislike for portugal

By: finnster01

finnster01 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:08:18 +0000

Carlos, that is awfully kind of you. Maybe I can even convince her of having the honeymoon swing by Singapore. That salt and pepper crab still is bothering me.

In any event, assuming we don’t pull an Oranje and lose in the final I should be in good shape. It will also be another year before the knot is knotted so to speak, but I will remind you of that case of wine.

Actually I wouldn’t mind inviting many of the people from this blog for the reception. I know, that’s a bit sad, but you have all become very close to me.