Holland
Features news coverage of Holland and its players, including match reports and general football news.
Top Christmas Football Deals
The best part about holiday shopping is the amount of discounts you can find. It is very important to go around the market before buying something because you never know, you might find it for cheaper elsewhere. Keeping that in mind, I looked around for quality presents with good discounts and picked, what I thought,…
Retro Football Kits
Throughout history, people have been kicking a ball but the earliest scientific evidence suggest that it was an exercise from a military manual in the second and third BC in China – it was called Cuju. Modern football took years in the making after the Chinese forgot about cuju. In 1872, the first ever international…
Euro 2012 Gear
The 14th European Championship for teams sanctioned by the UEFA is scheduled to be played between 8th June and 1st July 2012 in Poland and Ukraine. Spain are the current holders of the cup – they defeated Germany in the final in Austria / Switzerland version of the tournament in 2008. The groups and the…
Euro 2012 – Team-by-Team Preview and Schedule
With the 16 teams competing in Euro 2012 now selected and the qualifying process complete, all eyes look to Poland and Ukraine as time ticks down.
England shouldn’t expect any success in the near future
Like myself, all English football fans have been let down in recent years by our regularly under achieving international side. I would like to share my views on why this is the case, and on why I don’t see any reason to expect success in the near future. The fact that us English created the…
Beyond Lionel Messi: An Alternative List of the Top 25 Football Players in the World (25-11)
In my previous article, I argued that the process by which we decide who the world’s best players are has been grossly distorted. A combination of mainstream media hype (backed up with its ‘statistics’ – often little more than a ruse to get people gambling) and a nostalgic longing for the return of the great…
EURO 2012 Qualifiers: The top three match-ups that you cannot miss in the international break
The qualifiers for the 2012 European Championships resume this weekend, with some crucial clashes for some of the continent’s strongest sides. Whilst England face Wales in a crunch Group G clash, and Denmark look to overcome rivals Norway in order to leapfrog Portugal in Group H, some of the other groups have thrown up a…
Football Scholarly Of The World
Since the World Cup there has been one major debate amongst England fans. Youth. Every one of our 60 million football experts has the idea of how we should bring through swarms of talented players to annihilate competition. Who should the FA be looking at to find the blueprint to dispel a 50 year enigma….
The Blind Truth
Danny Blind………wasn’t he that Dutch bloke with the dodgy perm who brought down Paul Ince for the penalty at Euro 96? It seems the current AFC Ajax Director of football is remembered more for his resemblance of a Harry Enfield sketch than his playing career. A complete travesty if you ask me. The team of…
Slick Pitch Leaves England 2018 Bid In Pole Position
Sitting through the four respective last-ditch World Cup 2018 pitches this morning was nigh-on insufferable at times, as if trapped in a hellish junior management sales exposition that was doomed to cycle on for the rest of human existence. First up, Holland and Belgium, who’s bid president Ruud Gullit opened up by informing the room…
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