Thank you guys :-)

@Caleb
Haha true, just posted it here because it is the newest article

Posted from  United States

congrats to jan excellent articles and william of orange

Posted from  United States

Love reading your in depth stuff about the players’ characters, Jan. Really hard to judge that when you don’t know Dutch. Well deserved award.

Posted from  United Kingdom

Congrats Jan, well deserved!

its true guys, I wake up in the morning and this is the first thing I look at I love reading Jan’s articles and the great comments. We didn’t need this award to prove this blog is great but still it is deserved

“It is like a drug, I have to check it many times every day”like Great Finn said
Congrats the big man………Whenever i am entering in to the net.,i open this site first…After finding this site i got lots of information about dutch football,also i am thankful to all my brother’s here and their unfathomble contributions and witty comments.
The best blog doesn’t require any vote,it comes automatically..i personally belive that,Jan your excellent posts and your thirst for orange and dutch football got rewarded.

Posted from  India

Jan,

Its cool, even if its not real…look at the comments of the readers. Congratulations, and many thanks for your efforts.

Andrew

Posted from  United States

Tonight i hope i could see a quincy owusu game.after see his goal ,i now i am having a ray of hope…wait…he will come up….

Posted from  India

Well deserved Jan!

Posted from  United Kingdom

Congratulations Jan. Truly deserved and I second (or third after Tiju)Finn’s ‘drug’ comment. Many times a day! And to all the ‘usual suspects’ I thank you as well. There are many of us out there that ‘hang out’ for your comments on this blog that have helped Jan make it what it is. Outstanding effort!

well Jan; what can i say; for years now your blog makes my day everytime..please NEVER stop!! youre the man!

Posted from  Netherlands

Rafel is in trouble….dont know whether he will get playing time…Will pray for him so that Fergie colud sign him in winter transfer..

Posted from  India

Somehow I don’t think any of the big 4 in the EPL will be that interested in a player who has hardly played recently and who is still considered a flop around Europe recently (even though many people do admit he’s a good player or that he was good in the past for Hamburg).

Maybe he’ll reconsider Tottenham’s offer if they continue their good form up until the winter transfer window, that will be some improvement for Tottenham and they might secure a top 4 spot at the end of the season together with vdVaart, allthough 5 or 6 will be more likely. At least he won’t really need any European competition experience to earn back his spot for the WC since he’s got enough of that, all he needs is gamerythm. Tottenham would be a nice club for him (and he’ll have European competition next year again if he really wants that).

But I think if Hamburg showed some interest he’d go there in an instant. He’s already indicated only to be interested in England or Germany.

Posted from  Netherlands

By the by
i will pray for some injuries at the time of WC2010.hope Following players get injured and it will become the good for orange.
1.Gio vani
2.ooiger
3.Heitinga
4.Van bommel(Even though he is playing well,he will not win WC for us).
I doubt on RVN and VDS are they able to win the cup for us?VDS is a poor penalty stoper..
when will Znijder loose his selfishness?.
When will BVM understand that kuyt is not a central striker?..

Posted from  India

VDS WAS a poor penalty stopper, he’s really good at it now, especially when it matters most (Champions League for Man.U, the Holland – Sweden penalty shootout in EC 2004).

I’d be more worried about RvN since he’ll hardly get a chance to play at Madrid and I doubt he’ll move anywhere else for now.

Posted from  Netherlands

Let’s celebrate Jan The Man today guys…Jan, you make our day. And I lift a toast for you… Cheers

@Sol – do you think PSV would take a chance in January and bring Old Horsey Face back to Holland for a run at the title? That would get him match fit for WC-2010 and he may even be agreeable to it! I agree with Spurs making a play for Vaart at the transfer window, he can’t be stupid enough not to take the chance to get out of Real Shitrid again!

@Tij – not sure if you pray to Ganeesh or another god for football injuries but whoever it is that is not in good taste! I hate Ooijer in Oranje as much as anyone but to pray for an injury is LOW!

Can you imagine what this place will be like in June 2010 if Oranje start the way they did at Euro-08?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Congratulations jan , you deserve it
actually ,even if the blog doesn’t win any thing .. I will always consider it the best blog in the world . THANKS JAN

nah, don’t think RvN is going anywhere. I wouldn’t, nice weather, good salary, no hassle moving back to Holland.

Allthough, a chance at eternal glory might be more important for him. Guess we’ll see at the transfer window.

Posted from  Netherlands

I meant an improved chance…

Posted from  Netherlands

Jan, I would wholeheartedly concur – you are the MAN! Prosst!

Posted from  Canada

@orange rules i just showed my frustration.(in a way just kidding)if you feel its cruel,i am sorry.i know otherwise they will be selected in WC2010.B/W i cannt even think about Ganesh.I dont misunderstand all the indians are having blind belives and dont consider them as idol worshipers..Got it..

Posted from  India

Here’s a question related to this topic. Why is it you think this blog attracts so much more reasonable or intelligent conversations and discussions than for example http://www.telegraaf.nl/telesport/voetbal (where I occasionally check up on the latest news)?

Is it the international character of this blog or is it the type of people that read the telegraaf a lot and therefore are most likely to post there? Don’t really see why others don’t want to post there, other than the fact perhaps that any attempt at any reasonable conversation is already been made futile by these type of silly comments that seem to plague all threads/topics there (pardon the dutch, too much too translate, I was checking up on Robben’s injury and noticed these comments, but I always notice these type of comments there in any topic):

Topic: Robben haakt af met blessure

“Het val wel erg op dat wanneer zijn team verliest, hij altijd wel iets mankeert. ”

“Stelletje jankers zijn het. Allemaal hogere toneelschool gehad die voetballers. Zelf gewoon half seizoen met gebroken teen gevoetbalt. Niets aan de hand. Ze moeten een regel invoeren verzorging nodig buiten het veld is 5 min erbuiten blijven. zal wel schelen denk.”

“Stop toch met voetballen man! Of zijn je zakken nog niet genoeg gevuld. Onbegrijpelijk ook dat clubs er steeds weer intrappen om deze sukkelaar een vet contract te bieden. Absoluut geen enkele meerwaarde. Ja voor de (para)medici, die hebben er een dagtaak aan om dit suikermannetje steeds weer op te lappen. Een typische psv-jankerd.”

Posted from  Netherlands