van't Schip to Oz... http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,26197638-5000940,00.html Australian football's infatuation with the Dutch has intensified with John van't Schip appointed the inaugural coach of A-League club-in-waiting Melbourne Heart. The Ajax Amsterdam assistant coach has agreed to a ...

gordonvandekamp schreef: Nice to see some still regard Ajax as "Europe's Elite"

When was this written 1995? Europes Elite. That's a good one.

HOw will relegation and promotion work? Who determines which teams are in and out of the "Super League?" Is it based on club payroll, club income, or club debt? If the latter, Madrid, ManU, Liverpool all automatically qualify. I remember several years ago there was talk of a "mid-tier" league with ...

"Real chief Perez wants Euro Super League" (http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=659120&sec=europe&cc=5901) "We have to agree a new European Super League which guarantees that the best always play the best - something that does not happen in the Champions League," Perez told Spanish televisio...

#5 Out of interest, what's your thinking behind this one? My interpretation of that rule (based on nothing at all except my own musings) is that it makes the game MORE attacking because it allows the defenders to play up the park when their team's in possession... Just something I would be interest...

aveslacker schreef:...
I'd also like to add another official on the pitch. Ice hockey has more than one official to patrol a sport with 12 players on the ice, so why should soccer have one to patrol 22?

Yep. Good point. Agreed. The game is faster than it used to be. This would help the refs.

I'm not sure if this has been covered in the past (hell, maybe even by me and I don't remember!), but I have been meaning to post this for a while. I'm interested to see what you guys might change if we ran FIFA, not so much on the business side of things, but more rules/changes in the game. As much...

We need a very good goalkeeper, a very good defender, another very good defender (preferably one that goes well with the first one) and a very, very good defensive midfielder. In my opinion more than anything else we need to learn to play as a team. To fight for the shirt. To never forget that our ...

Nick Cave is pretty much an institution here. One of my favourite songwriters so I'm biased but he's very popular amongst 'alternative' / 'indie' types. Probably hasn't been huge with the more mainstream market or the latest generation but I wouldn't really know much about that... He recently curat...

Next category, ladies and gentlemen, is the 'Most Painful & Embarrassing TV Interview Of The Year'. There is only one nominee: Michael Jackson's father, Joe, live on CNN, directly from the red carpet of the BET Awards in Los Angeles... Check it out . Can you believe that? K. I love the self promoti...

The games might actually be nice to watch if FIFA would ban those annoying horns... Allow me to introduce my latest Web venture... BanTheHorns.org It looks like crap and won't make a bit of difference, but it makes me feel like I'm doing "something." Thanks for the link mate. I turned the games off...

Congrats to the US. They might have scrapped though to the semi's, but they deserved the win with that performance. I just hope it's not like when Australia made the final against Brazil in '97 and we lost 6-0 :blush.gif: What I always find interesting in these situations is how surprised a lot of p...

The games might actually be nice to watch if FIFA would ban those annoying horns... How the USA got through to the semi's is beyond me. Normally 2 defeats, let alone 2 big defeats would mean the end of your tournament. Shows you should never give up. Good luck to the USA guys though (against Spain.....

And herein lies the problem. The more you make a football club a financial business, the bigger chance it will be effected by any financial crisis. We can also tie this in with the discussions around the Real transfers. This has been building and building for a good few years now and will only get w...

I was actually wondering what sort of insurance a player like Ronaldo would need. The club must be paying nearly as much on this as his wages.

One decent tackle could bring the club and more likely the insurance company to its knees.

They better hope they win something within a year or two, or they will lose out here big time.

As I mentioned, this will have to implode one day. It might not be Real, but a big club will go belly up in England, Spain or Italy at some point, if not more than one, which will have a knock-on effect. I do not see how Real can seriously make the money back on both Kaka and Ronaldo, even with merc...

One day it will collapse in on itself and Madrid will be playing in the 3rd tier. Ahhh to dream.

Here we go again... Cruyff prepared to help Ajax http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/cruyff-prepared-to-help-ajax-190919/ He told BNR Nieuwsradio: "They have to contact me. And they must show that they are willing to work with my ideas. ...blah blah blah. Am I a bad person because I just want him to shu...

Here we go again...
Cruyff prepared to help Ajax
http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/cruyff-p ... ax-190919/

He told BNR Nieuwsradio: "They have to contact me. And they must show that they are willing to work with my ideas.

...blah blah blah.

Just a quick "Good Luck!" to the Dutch cricket team in the World Twenty20 tournament starting tomorrow.... Hup Holland Hup Yeah Hup Holland! I think Eurosport 2 are showing some games. The Australian Cricket team annoy me (except when we play and beat England), so happy for them to get an arse whip...

De Dominee schreef: Too bad, we can use the money and Vermaelen is not especially talented.

And I thought it was just me that thought that? Good but not great. We can replace with better.

You knew it was just a matter of time before Crissy Ronaldo started whining.... "We have to give credit to Barcelona, but they were a bit lucky to be here because Chelsea did not deserve to lose and no-one has mentioned that. "I have to congratulate Barcelona, they were better, but football is just...

Kowalczyk schreef:Whahahahaha - this is f*cking hilarious...

http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/scott ... tango.html

Brilliant. Hahaha.

K.

LMAO - Only in Scotland.

Amazing display of football by Barca. They really made Man U look like a 2nd rate side.

Messi is legend, and Ferdinand is still overrated.