Good day for Johan Neeskens, his team won a South African cup match 24 - 0!

http://www.supersport.com/football/nedb ... n_Cup_rout

Just occurred to me that I should find out if O'D's and the Balti House still exist...

How is progress with the Noord-Zuidlijn???

I'm coming to this game, my first Ajax game since I left Nederland in 2009. My wife and kids brought me the tickets for my upcoming birthday. I'm looking forward to the trip, having a beer in o'Donnels and a curry at the Balti House for old time's sake, meeting up with a couple of old friends - but ...

Anal sex is like getting your first Manchester United scarf. You don't want it, but your uncle gives it to you anyway.

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Just bought a Jehovah's Witness
advent calendar.

Every time you open a door someone
tells you to fuck off.


<ka-boom, tish>

I’m here all week folks, try the veal…

It may still be tight for us to get through—7 goals isn't that many when we have to play Madrid and Lyon are playing Zagreb…

Irrelevant.

That was a catastrophic performance against an exceptionally weak Lyon side. We needed to score to stand even the remotest chance of progressing to the knockout phase, and yet when the incompetent Lyon defence handed us opportunities on a plate, our players had a failure of nerve, to put the most po...

Long story short, for an article he is writing a UK football journalist friend of mine needs to know what a Flemish TV station would say to mean an 'action replay' in a football match.

All I could think of was herhaling, but that sounds kind of lame.

Any thoughts?

Wow! I've just read my post from the first page of this thread, seems like half a lifetime ago. Such a lot has happened since then. After my 22 years in Nederland my family moved to the UK at the end of 2009. My wife (an American) settled in well here, but my boys now aged 11, (Amsterdam born and br...

14, I was with you right up till the word 'Chelski'.

That was a lame, infantile joke even five years ago.

Guys get a grip, Ajax can never "return to greatness" in the sense of being a top European club - we are a big fish club in a small pond domestic market. What is possible is returning to greatness in terms of playing free-flowing, attacking and fearless football, that could surprise the top European...

Cruijff is a nasty little bully isn't he? Whatever happens Ajax is the loser here. Either the current situation continues, or Ajax will be effectively be run by a playground bully and his two henchmen. While we are on the subject, It must have been fun for those two at work this morning. Turning up ...

Well I don't think it's fair to single out anyone for criticism, with the exception of Ebecilio they are all hopeless so far. But I'm going to anyway... The two full backs Blind and van der Wiel are absolute rubbish, De Zeeuw and (it goes almost without saying) De Jong have also been particularly em...

He got two girls pregnant within a month in his Everton days, one of them was my mate's sister.

Those Liverpool girls...

I was trying my best to watch on a stuttering jerky feed, but I kept getting interrupted by friends and family phoning and knocking on the door, to celebrate my birthday. I wanted to tell 'em to fuck off and leave me alone, but that would have been a trifle churlish I suppose. Anyway, what I did see...

I've just watched Liverpool's 9 - 0 destruction of an admittedly hapless Southend United in the F.A. youth cup on LFC tv, and like everyone else watching I'm amazed at the skill and pace of the 16 year old Jamaican high-school student Raheem Sterling. He scored five goals in this game, three from th...

I predict Suarez will pick up a red card very early on in his EPL career, perhaps even in his first game, what happens after that depends on his intelligence and maturity. He could blossom into a Liverpool legend, he has that kind of talent, or he could become a byword for catastrophic transfers. It...

Breaking news on SKY Sports News, Luis Suarez is now a Liverpool player.

Transfer €26.5 million.

Salary €4.2 million per year.

Breaking news on SKY Sports News, he's now a Liverpool player.

€26.5 million.

Ryan Babel to Hoffenheim for €5 million, is the story on S.S.N.

Babel sees himself as a central striker, I believe that was his position all through the academy. So quite how he ended up stuck out on the wing, I don't know. It's certainly not his best position.

That kind of makes sense since they moved VdV to a more central roll, but really WHL is awash with attacking midfielders at the moment, I'm not sure how many starts he's going to get - he might be better off at Inter. Ideally, he could do really well at Liverpool, though of course there's no way the...

It's not De Jong's fault to the extent that he's playing out of position, but at the moment he's a bit of an embarrassment. Didn't see much of the second half given that my wife insisted I fixed her Email without delay, but everytime I did watch, De Jong seemed to be missing a guilt-edged opportunit...

Memo to Frank De Boer: Siem De Jong will never be a striker.

Good game though.

When Blind was in charge of player acquisitions he brought some shockingly poor players and let some good ones leave. He's just not a good judge of a footballer.