PSV won, Feyenoord won…. AZ lost again.
Louis van Gaal had the worst season last year with his team, but decided to stay on because he still saw potential.
This season, he has lost the first two games already, yesterday against newcomer ADO Den Haag (Goose is drunk, no doubt). Van Gaal did feel his team played [...]

How ’bout this for a team:
Defense consisting of Chivu, Van Damme, Heitinga, Nigel de Jong
MIdfield: Maduro, Sneijder, Van der Vaart (Pienaar on the bench)
Offense: Van der Meyde, Zlatan, Ryan Babel (with Mido and Tom de Mul benched).
I guess you could win a Dutch title with these lads, if you had a half decent goalie. These [...]

And then you find that football, albeit deadly serious, can also be deadly funny…

Or…very weird….

Willem van Hanegem’s column in the AD
“I hope everyone understands that I wished FC Utrecht would have started this competition better, but when the chagrin of the end-result faded away, what’s left was my admiration for Ibrahim Afellay. Man, that dude can play some football! I am happy to be able to say that I [...]

It’s over and done with. No more transfers till the Winter window.
Ajax found itself in a little dilemma when two sub top clubs from Europe dangled a carrot of the value of 40 Mio euros in Van Basten’s face: Klaas Jan Huntelaar being the sacrifice for that. But, Ajax said, they weren’t of the calibre [...]

Wonder goals are really wonder goals when they’re scored in important matches! Peter Houtman - currently stadium speaker at Feyenoord - was a typical Wim Kieft like striker. Tall, static, strong in the air. The guy started his career at the Feyenoord youth, then was told to leave (not good enough). He played for FC [...]

Heitinga scores…
Well, we’re off… and what a start!
PSV does what it always does. It wins. 5-1 to be precise. With an Afellay on fire! The youngster recently declared he wants to leave PSV next summer but this season will have to be his season. The neo-international scored two goals in the whole of last season [...]

Peter Hoekstra… He was one hell of a left winger! Came from nowhere into PSV, a much coveted youth player. His length, his speed, his technique…a joy to watch… He was part of Hiddink’s EC1996 squad and was supposed to become one of Holland’s most exciting players. But fate happened. Hoekstra’s tall and lean [...]

The Hunter wants to score 35 competition goals this season, win the title and he wants to read a good book every now and then. No striker in Holland, or anywhere in the world, will be quoted saying that.
KLaas Jan is midway through “De Donkere Kamer van Damokles” when his third season at Ajax is [...]

Well my friends, the Dutch Eredivisie started and from out of nowhere the number of football news-items is exploding.
Quickly then:
FC Groningen trashed Vitesse in their away game 0-4. It seems Ron Jans is doing it again.
Marco van Basten wants Kees Jansma to become Ajax’ new general manager. San Marco worked with Jansma at the KNVB [...]