Willem’s column in the AD:
“What annoys me most about these friendlies Oranje plays, is that there isn’t any experimenting. It seems it’s all fixed already. Everyone knows his place and in order to change something, a lot needs to happen. Or so it seems.
The regulars will be very happy and content. Maybe it’s the ideal [...]

Hell Yes I’m mad! Angry, pissed off, you name it…
Seriously! Why would the KNVB organize two friendlies 7 months before the ^&*$# WC in one of the busiest times in the season??
Why risk all this? Sneijder out. Van Persie out! Congrats, people. “But we did make some euros!” Kesler will say.
Well, whoopdidoo, buster!
1. These games [...]

Arsène Wenger called him a cross between Thierry Henry and Dennis Bergkamp the other week. And that’s quite something. Henry was top scorer in the Premier League for 4 seasons and the regarded as the best foreign player ever in the EPL. Dennis Bergkamp was God. If a coach says something like that about his [...]

Ibrahim Afellay is back, at last, for the internationals against Italy and Paraguay. He was absent too much due to injuries. “It was highly frustrating. Every time there was something else. Oranje is very important to me and I’m happy I’m top fit again. I want to keep it like that,” the midfielder said.
His role [...]

Wout Brama will make his debut in the selection of Oranje. The 23 year old midfielder of Dutch leader FC Twente is over the moon with his selection. “I am so happy, I still can’t really believe it,” Brama responded to media questions.
“I was actually shopping for furniture when the call came. I saw a [...]

I’ll be blunt: I’ve never been a PSV fan.
There you have it.
I have admired them in the past, for their management, their finances, the ability to sign Romario, Ronaldo, Kieft, Timmy Simons, Gullit… But to me, they were always the rich football club from PSV where they speak with the soft “g”.
Feyenoord is my [...]

This is the picture that was promised to the Oranje fans in 1990 and 1994… Obviously, with a naranjita jersey, but hey…
It’s 2009 now… 19 years onwards and the Catalans are loved more by the Football Gods than the Dutch…
A great day for them, a sad day for us .
And at the same time, [...]

Borrowed from goal.com, especially for Finnster…

Steve McClaren started his first job as head coach in 2001, when he was appointed as Middlesbrough manager. The former Manchester United assistant guided the club to League Cup success three years after his appointment and made it to the UEFA Cup final in 2005-’06. Despite losing against [...]

Well, Twente had Ajax visiting and….Twente won! Who says Mr Umbrella is not doing the right thing?
Being number 1 in the standings is one thing, after 12 odd games, but shaking off the prolificly scoring Ajax with 1-0 is simply great for the Tukkers. McClaren still doesn’t want to talk title – good on him [...]

Castillion
In the olden days, Feyenoord or Ajax delivered the top guns for Oranje. Moulijn, Swart, Keizer, Van Hanegem, Jansen, Cruyff, Krol… After a while, PSV started to mingle and around the 1980s we saw AZ, FC Twente and other clubs offering up their talents.
With Huntelaar out of form, out of fashion and out of sight [...]