All-Time AC Milan Team
Next to Real Madrid, AC Milan is Europe’s most successful club. Winning 18 Scudetto’s, 7 Champions Leagues and 4 Club World Cups can only be done when you’ve got the best of the best players at your...
View Article2006 World Cup Round of 16 – Portugal vs Holland (Full Classic Match)
Of all the classic games I’ve watched and rewatched, this one ranks among the most enjoyable. Not that Portugal and Holland displayed beautiful football. Quite the opposite. This game is so ugly –...
View Article2008 Euro Group Match ~ Holland vs France (Full Classic Match)
What a difference two years can make. Holland had been disappointing in the 2006 World Cup. They had played stale football. Not that anyone remembers their football. Their only noteworthy contribution...
View ArticleHolland All-Time Team
With three lost World Cup finals on its resumé, Holland’s reputation as the eternal loser of international football can hardly be called undeserved. But what pleasent losers they’ve been. The iconic...
View Article1988 Euro Final ~ Holland vs USSR (Full Classic Match)
A mere thirteen days before this final, Holland and the USSR had clashed in a group match. Holland had been the favourites, but it were the Soviets who triumphed: 1-0. Even on that day, there was...
View Article1988 Euro Semi-Final ~ West-Germany vs Holland (10 min. HL)
On paper, it was just a semi-final. In practise, it was much more than that. As Holland coach Rinus Michels would later declare: “it was the real final”. Michels’ statement reflects the hatred that...
View Article1988 Euro Final ~ Holland vs USSR (10 minute Highlights)
A mere thirteen days before this final, Holland and the USSR had clashed in a group match. Holland had been the favourites, but it were the Soviets who triumphed: 1-0. Even on that day, there was...
View ArticleThe Great XI’s: AC Milan 1989
Before the rise of Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona, Arrigo Sacchi’s late 80′s AC Milan was widely regarded as the greatest football club team of all time. Not just because it was filled with such an...
View Article2006 World Cup Round of 16 ~ Portugal vs Holland (Full Classic Match)
For all the wrong reasons, this was the most entertaining match of the 2006 World Cup. The press anticipated a clash between Joga Bonita and Total Football. A football show featuring artists like Figo,...
View Article200+ Johan Cruyff Quotes
Ludwig van Beethoven once decided to premiere several brilliant new works in a cold Viennese concert hall. The concert lasted four long hours. A critic attending the concert drew the inevitable...
View Article11-11-11 ~ The Best 11 of all time
In the near future, this website will add a page dedicated to lists and formations of the greatest players of all time. And to get a taste of what’s to come, what better way to celebrate 11-11-11 than...
View ArticleAjax All-Star XI
Despite playing in a small league and always having had to cope with a small budget, Ajax might arouse some jealousy from presidents of the richest clubs in football, when they are presented with a...
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