Team manager Bert van Marwijk confirmed he uses a shadow list for potential Oranje players at last Friday’s press conference in Zeist. The coach refused to publish the list, though. “It wouldn’t do anyone any good to publish that list. It’s not a fixed list either, so then I’d have to go out and justify [...]

I don’t think we’ll win the Champions League this season. I’m sorry to break the news to you.
But we’re not doing too shabby in the Europa League and you have to start somewhere…

Dembele tries…
AZ Alkmaar is a club and a team in trouble. Replacing Van Gaal by Ronald Koeman is one thing, but having [...]

The season is almost two months old and PSV and Twente are above Ajax in the tables. At the same time, Ajax hasn’t impressed in Europe yet.
That’s too bad. But nothing more than that. Ajax might not play sensational against clubs like RKC or NAC, but there is almost no criticism. That’s weird. That’s un-Ajax. [...]

1. If you take up too many projects, you can’t watch CL games . Or post enough articles on the blog.
I missed a lot of action. Didn’t see anything of the CL yesterday…
2. If you can sign Van der Vaart because Xabi Alonso leaves, you should! (Mr Benitez!!)
Liverpool looks frail. Without ideas. Lucas and [...]

Former Ajax player Jan Molby scored a tremendous goal in 1985 for Liverpool against Manchester United in the Milk Cup. However, due to a tv strike that goal was never aired. The goal went into football lore as the most beautiful goal most people missed. The rush of the overweight Great Dane grew to epic [...]

Well, I commented on the biggest upset of this weekend already… Feyenoord losing away to Ajax, 5-1. That hurts. Every Feyenoord fans secretly thanks the referee for that debatable red card for Babovic, so they can now claim that maybe maybe maybe with eleven, Feyenoord would have had a chance.
Ajax played impressive without being [...]

Rob van Dijk, oldie but goldie
Mario Been and Martin Jol are facing their first ever classic as coaches. The Amsterdam ArenA is the venue for the first clash of Ajax and Feyenoord this season. The number 3 against the number 4.
Mario Been: “These games are always special, whether it’s about anything or not. If we [...]

Ejero Elia is traveling in a fast elevator. And he’s going up! The winger has a tremendous start with HSV and the talent of the year was also decisive for Oranje in his first internationals. Elia is inspired by his idol Rafael van der Vaart. “Everything he does has a reason behind it.”
HSV shares [...]

It’s that time again soon!
The 00’s are coming to an end. We need to talk “Best Players of the Decade”.
That means, any player who played somewhere from 2000 till now.
Dennis Bergkamp, for instance, qualifies for this list.
There’s a massive questionaire being put up by the OffSide Weekend Blogger and I will collate your responses and [...]

One can’t just leave for two weeks, it seems… Lots has happened since, not in the least the 250+ comments from my calcio brothers and sisters . Thanks for keeping this blog alive, my friends!!
Anyway, I’m just doing this from the hip, if that’s ok…
In Holland, AZ is hurt by the debacle that is [...]