I wanted to have a positive title. After all the negative shenanigans of the past days weeks months years. There definitely are positives. So lets list those: Oranje remembers how…
If FIFA would have organised a losers Cup to be played parallel with the World Cup, for instance in Andorra or on Malta, with nations like...eh...Andorra, Malta, Finland, Luxembourg, Greece…
While Abba plays in the background, Dick Advocaat is enjoying a smorgasbord of questions at the press conference. All the country's mathematicians and statisticians joined in to calculate Oranje's chances…
Another attempt to make sense of where we are and what we can expect moving forward and how we got into this mess... As the loyal blog followers will know,…
After more than 10 years blogging about Oranje and its exploits, you do run out of cute titles for posts. A crucial week for the Dutch. We were absent in…
While part of the attention in football land is going towards all the new signings, the Neymar transfer, Man United's ambitions, Bayern's poor performances and other irrelevant matters, the Dutch…
All three Dutch top clubs have a challenge to deal with. Feyenoord won the title, which resulted in a seismic eruption of elation, joy, relief and pride. It won the…
Phillip Cocu passed the ball into him. A quick turn and a shot on target: goal! He jumps laughing into the arms of Pierre van Hooijdonk, at the side of…
I think Malen is a top striker in a 4-4-2 or 4-5-1. Koeman said it constantly in the run up…