Royston Drenthe made his return to a Dutch pitch to play with Holland B against Young Sweden.
Summer 2008 was a summer to quickly forget. The expectations were high. And the ambition was to win gold in Bejing with Foppe de Haan’s success team. And Royston Drenthe of Real Madrid was the star of that [...]

The best of the rest of the Eredivisie and Royston Drenthe proved to be a “nice team” but couldn’t avoid losing 0-3 against Young Sweden…
Fresh and energetic, the Dutch B-team attacked, supported by fans, some scouts and a couple of club coaches. A couple of huge opps were missed by Oranje B and the team [...]

So much for the rumors about a rift between these two…
The few fans that did show up in the Arena saw four wonderful goals and a handful of interesting moments. But, Oranje-Sweden (3-1) did end up in a somewhat lifeless end of a fascinating Oranje year.
Oranje had a great year. In 12 months, the Dutch [...]

Dirk plays the ball to Dirk. Bert ask Bert questions. We never had such an typical Dutch team as our current one. Oranje smells of “stamppot” again…
The Oranje of today reflects the vibe of province and meadows. The hotel where the players reside serves up Swedish meatloaf, otherwise it would have been stamppot (traditional Dutch [...]

Dirk Kuyt’s goal last Saturday for Liverpool against Bolton was more than just a goal.
Kuyt has scored in the last three months in all possible manners. The balls hit the net, kicked with left, right…from crosses, dribbles… From inside and outside of the box. “A header was the only one missing. I told our physio [...]

Man, we’ve got to miss Van the Man for months!!
So here’s the first “greatest hits” clip. Ruud in his PSV days.
The man can score goals. Solo dribbles, distant strikers, headers, sitters, everything… Look out for Genius Nilis and a young Van Bommel.
Oh…and only for adult viewers… the horrible injury (on the Herdgang during training) is [...]

His fighting spirit is bigger than that of most star players on this planet, but Ruud van Nistelrooy will have to move mountains this time around to maintain his spot at the firmament of greats…
In the last days, an elaborate operation has been executed by Doc Steadman in Vail, in order to restore the mess [...]

The joy of Real Madrid’s title in May has made place for dread. It’s only November and the C-word (crisis) has been used many times already.
The team is basically the same as last season’s, the club trails two points behind Barca and has all the trumps in hand in the CL.
But, the quality of play [...]

Yep! It’s official… Take out the champagne. Make faces to Germans, Portuguese and Italians.
The Netherlands (i.e. Holland, i.e. Oranje) has leapfrogged Brazil in the FIFA standings of “Best Football Nations in the World” (or something like that…).
Spain is still number one, Germany and Italy are 2 and 3 (so stop making faces to them then…) [...]

Divine help for Adams…
His mobile phone doesn’t stop ringing. “John, the BBC wants to talk to you!”. Former Nothingham team mate Gary Birtles wants Metgod live in the broadcast. And son Dimitri is running around weariing a Pompey jersey.
John Metgod is leaving Feyenoord. The assistant coach will join Tony Adam’s squad as assistant coach. The [...]