It was men against boys, wasn't it? For me, the most depressing part wasn't so much the tactical and strategic blunders, or even the players' technical incompetence. It was that Ajax played without flair or imagination. Surely Ajax, of all football teams in the world should show some originality of ...

One of the worst 45 minutes of Ajax football that I can ever remember. Jol has the strategic insight of a chimpanzee. Ajax are playing without width, everything is going down the centre which is exactly what Juve want. Alex Manninger is a goalkeeping basket-case and Ajax have done precisely nothing ...

well done Ko, you've convinced me.

Now convince me that the recession is over and I'm gonna find a new job inside of three months.


Please...

I watched the first leg on ESPN here in the U.K. and I have to say it was the most depressing Ajax game I have seen in a very long time. This is the worst Juventus team for 80 years, with a tactically inept coach, and we still couldn't beat them. Juve started the game with (an aging) three at the ba...

Q: How many music journalists does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: It's a pretty obscure number. You probably haven't heard of it.

The big surprise of the day was the performance of Oleguer - he looked more than half-decent. Mind you, he won't come up against strikers as s-l-o-w as Tomasson and Makaay every week. Those guys move like molasses.

My goal of the season so far - from the Italian third Division!

His name is Cozzolino - sign him up!!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTTGxyzv1vM

I would have preferred it if Suarez had scored 2 goals rather than four. The nightmare scenario now is that someone is going to come along with a €40 million bid which Ajax will struggle to resist.

Steks just needs a new career. Security guard maybe, or perhaps he's geschikt for the Army.

Surely, there must be a good, solid, competent goalkeeper out there somewhere. Other clubs seem to be able to find them, why can't we?

I think Luque is a decent player who has done well on the rare occasions he's been allowed to play.

Obviously there are other forces at play here that we know nothing about, but he's not a joke player.

I agree. He's a solid aggressive midfielder, but at best he'll bring additional strength in depth to our squad which is already too big.

The Times and Sky TV are talking up an Ajax bid for Welsh International Gareth Bale.

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 84,00.html

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Doesn't exactly fill you with confidence, does it?

I think he was sold because he didn't get along with Zlatan (I think he threatened him with a pair of scissors or something) and maybe VD Vaart (not sure if I remember this correctly). He threw a bandage razor into Zlatan's face in the dressing room at Celtic Park. He didn't get on all that well wi...

#3: THE 6-5 RULE. For the love of football, FIFA find a way to get the clubs to agree to this. 5 foreigners max. How many English players are playing in the top clubs regularly? This is clearly a breach of European law - a constraint on trade. There's no way on Earth the E.U. would allow football t...

Steks is a positional disaster, and he tends to freeze in big games. He is what's known in cricketing terms as a 'flat-track bully.' As Bryan points out, the fact that he's been looking to leave for so long and nobody has come a knockin' tells you all you need to know.

Vermeer - too accident prone.

I saw Ivan Obradovic on Sky TV the other night. He came on as a second-half substitute for Serbia and made quite an impact. The Serbs played much better with him. Very much an attacking defender.

I see that Real Madrid have transfer-listed all of their Dutch players. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/jun/16/real-madrid-player-clearout I'm sure they will all move on to other big name clubs in Europe. But I was wondering about Ruud van Nistlerooij, he's getting on a bit, and very injury ...

A great night for Oranje last night, being involved in cricket admin in a part-time capacity I know almost all the Dutch team personally - great bunch of lads, and I was cheering them on last night. We were dreading going to the cricket club this morning we thought we were going to cop a lot of stic...

How the might have fallen.

What a sad little line-up.

Yes, Sky TV's reasonably well informed Spanish TV show 'Revista de la Liga', said that Sneijder is also on the Real hit list.

I see Gordon Strachan is free...

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh God, it's going to be Danny Blind, isn't it?

Oh God, Oh God, Oh God...

The horror, the horror...

It's going to take us years to recover from this.

Anybody want to buy my season ticket?