Articles tagged with "netherlands"
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jul 2nd, 2008
FIFA says... yes. The latest FIFA World rankings were released today, and a month of World Cup qualifying and a little tournament called Euro 2008 ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 28th, 2008
We've spent a fair bit of time ogling the womenfolk of Euro 2008. It's all part of what makes tournament football so very very ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 27th, 2008
Maroon 5 dedicated a song to this blog, called...eh... "This Blog".
It goes: "this blog has taken it's toll on me, but you said goodbye, so ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 25th, 2008
The Unlikely Fan, obviously still reeling from his adopted Oranje's exit from the tournament and taking it about as well as Hillary Clinton, gives his ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 24th, 2008
Our latest Fake Photo, sent in by Mike, is a dramatization of the "incident" between Patrick Vieira and Patrice Evra in the tunnel after France's ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 23rd, 2008
1. Jogi Low is an excellent picker
After being sent off against Austria, Germany's coach wasn't allowed to contact his players during the game against Portugal. ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 23rd, 2008
Your Euro 2008 semi-finalists are: Turkey, Germany, Russia, Spain. Of these four teams, only Spain are unbeaten. Turkey lost to Portugal, Germany lost to Croatia ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Jun 23rd, 2008
The collective wisdom is that it's good for a national team to have players playing in the big leagues outside their own country. If ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | Jun 22nd, 2008
We have two games to cover with this weekend's award ceremonies. So let's get cracking. First up ...
The Life of Brian Award : ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Jun 21st, 2008
Some news to read as you take a look at the world's ugliest dog:
Reactions from the Dutch camp (Netherlands blog)
The death of 4-4-2 (SI.com)
What Poland ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 21st, 2008
Just like yesterday, all the good stuff was saved for the end of the game.
Despite Ruud van Nistelrooy's late equalizer Guus Hiddink became the happiest ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Jun 21st, 2008
After the France-Netherlands game, where France was demolished, 4-1, reports started coming out that France players Patrick Vieira and Patrice Evra had come to blows ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 21st, 2008
Oranje will start in the same line up as it did against Italy and France. Khalid Boulahrouz will play as right back and Engelaar will ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 21st, 2008
QUARTER-FINAL 3
June 21st, 2045 CET, Basel (Switzerland)
Netherlands1
VS
Russia 3
van Nistelrooy 86' Pavlyuchenko 56', Torbinski 113', Arshavin '116
FULLTIME
122' Dutch trying to mount any type of chellenge, ...
Posted on: Russia Euro 2008 Blog by Nick | Jun 21st, 2008
Hello to all. I just wanted to write a small blog on this evening's Netherlands-Russia game.
The most interesting thing about this match is Hiddink facing ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 21st, 2008
You'll probably read this on a hundred other websites, but Russia boss Guus Hiddink is plotting the downfall of his home nation today. Though the ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | Jun 21st, 2008
As if the Dutch needed any extra confidence coming off of their 9-1 aggregate victory over the rest of the group of death, they can ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Jun 21st, 2008
Boys and girls, we as a group are not doing so well.
Fully 60% of us expected Portugal to win over Germany. Yet Germany won, ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 21st, 2008
This is the dream matchup of the quarterfinals. Both teams have been playing some beautiful attacking football and Russia's mastermind, Guus Hiddink, is both from ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 20th, 2008
Peter Wekking wrote this excellent column in the VI, some weeks before the tournament:
Edwin van der Sar. A child of Noordwijk. Hsving spent his youth ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 20th, 2008
Sorry guys, it's 5.30 am and Croatia - Turkey is still on. Watching football at this time is only fun when watching quality play...
Turkish goalie ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 20th, 2008
It's only taken one game, of course the UEFA Cup didn't hurt, and Andrei Arshavin's stock is shooting through the roof. Previously clubs like Newcastle, ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | Jun 19th, 2008
1980 was an interesting year in sports. The US beat the Soviet Union in the most famous hockey game ever. The Wenzels were ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 19th, 2008
Khalid Boulahrouz will stay in the Dutch camp. On Wednesday, Khalid and Sabia were faced with a devastating personal drama when he premature baby girl ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Jun 19th, 2008
Cristiano Ronaldo or Michael Ballack? Flying Dutchmen or Russian youth? Croatian dark horse vs. um...Turkish dark horse? World Cup Champs Italy or ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 19th, 2008
Euro 2008 group stages, we need to talk. We've been together now for 11 days, and they've been some of the best 11 days of ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 19th, 2008
Neuropsychologist Erik Matser wrote a book called "Character" in 2006 and in that he discussed - among other things - the brilliance of Marco van ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 18th, 2008
That headline is the only lame pun I'll make about this. Mostly because ITV's Robbie Earle has used up all the other ones.
Just be glad ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 18th, 2008
The group stage is over and all sixteen teams have played three times.
So what finer moment than now to do our Euro 2008 Power Rankings?
Below ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 18th, 2008
So what is that with Golden Guus Geluk Hiddink?
Is he a phenomenon? A brilliant tactician? A super motivator?
He is smart. That's what he is. ...
