But seriously, Spain did very well, Villa is great. I’d love to see Oranje play Spain and may be the best team win.

If you’re here to pick a fight, I won’t bite. Goose may

I am not even Dutch (I’m Norwegian), but I like the team and the Dutch people. I also like Italians and the food, less impressed with the football, but you are the world champions and nobody can take that away from you. So when you beat the world champions in something, don’t you think people will be happy? Come on…

Everone is entitled to their opinion, but just don’t come onto this blog with personal attacks on someone who has actually shown you (Italy) a lot more respect than you get on other blogs. Good banter is one thing, personal stuff is a whole other ballgame. This blog possibly has the best moderator of all blogs, and the volume of posts and bloggers to show for it, and I find it offensive that someone could possibly insinuate anything different.

I wish Italy luck, but just because you lost a game for once (and very deservedly so) don’t take it out on someone who does not deserve it. You obviously do not understand what a blog is all about. Good luck in the rest of the tournament, because you will need it.

“You wimps have nobody to blame but yourselves.”

Ozzies, wimps..? Crikey mate..

Oh, and the Australians are still crying about the world cup. They have an undeserved man advantage for nearly half the game, don’t even come close to scoring, and then in the last minute, stop defending only to find Grosso alone in the box going for goal. You wimps have nobody to blame but yourselves.

I am so sorry… I was going through all the comments I made and again, I did think I was being humble and polite towards the Italians, whom I admire. Really!

The comment you refer to is the caption of the image I published. As you will see in my earlier posts (many many to chose from) I use ironic/tongue-in-cheek-sarcastic comments for that. I presented Mutu as scarface (Pacino) and commented with a joke on Thierry Henry’s divorce.

Bad taste? Sure, but it’s a style form. And funny to me. I like black humor.

Anyway, let’s not call eachother a woos here. We had Davids, Stam, Bogarde in our team once. We can be bullies and assholes on the pitch. Like the Italians. We dove for penalties (Ronald de Boer, Robben), even San Marco elbowed a player into the hospital. Hell, artist Bergkamp once stood on Mijatovic! We’re no angels! And neither are the Italians.

And to be honest: I don’t care whether he faked it or not. Or whether it’s fair or not. The ref decided. Italy unhappy. Holland happy. End of story.

Italy got a ref-break in 2006. Now you don’t. It’s football.

I loved the Italians since the 1982 WC and many Dutch fans love AC Milan for obvious reasons. I even think most Dutchies are jealous on the Italian sense of style and their ruthlessness in winning and closing down games.

Our real enemies are the Germans

So, grow up a bit. Try to see all this in good spirits. A team searching for form and recognition being happy after humiliating the World Cup holders.

That’s all it is. It’s sports.

If you really think I am a disgrace to this blog and shown bigotry, state your case to the blog-management and I am more than willing to take a bow if they decide I crossed a line.

@skeeter; hey skeeter..dont care!