Well that's happening as well I guess...
Will be a cracker of a match I suppose, Netherlands have to win it!
Will be a cracker of a match I suppose, Netherlands have to win it!
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Been looking forward to this match since it was announced. Always a cracking fixture, plus you always get to see Rikaard gobbing on Voller over and over again!
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this will be a classicComment
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0-0i own everton fans on the internet....that's what i doComment
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Holland are just **** at the back so I think Germany 2-1.Thanks very much for being ‘This Mornings’ Farmer’Comment
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I think Germany can win it. van Bommel nailed on to be sent off
Patience when teased often, transforms into rageComment
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his father in-law wouldn't be happyOriginally posted by destinydude View PostI think Germany can win it. van Bommel nailed on to be sent offComment
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Is this the later game today?That rug really tied the room together.Comment
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What's that in Bender time?Originally posted by Bender View PostThat rug really tied the room together.Comment
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The Dutch are imploding early
Marcus Christenson
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 13 June 2012 11.53 BST
Wesley Sneijder has told his Holland team-mates they 'must be united or face the consequences'. Photograph: Matthew Ashton/AMA
Wesley Sneijder has hit out at the "pathetic egos" inside the Holland squad as they prepare to face Germany on Wednesday night. The Dutch lost their opening game against Denmark and desperately need a result against one of the pre-tournament favourites if they are not to face an early exit.
But, as has happened so often in the past with the Dutch team, their preparations for an important game has been disrupted by disharmony in the squad and Sneijder has now voiced his displeasure with the situation. "It is time we let go of these pathetic egos," he said. "If somebody is creating a mess [within the squad], I will stand up against them.
"We don't need a psychologist with the Dutch team, we are grown-up men. The ones who have a problem with other players or the manager should tell them face to face. That is the only psychology we need. We have to stop living on little islands. We must all go for the same goal, be united or face the consequences."
His call for unity, however, seems to have little chance of succeeding with Rafael van der Vaart voicing his disappointment at being left out of Bert van Marwijk's starting XI for the game against Denmark. "I am very disappointed," Tottenham's attacking midfielder was quoted as saying in Voetbal International. "The coach has his preferences, I am not part of them and I don't think that is going to change.
"We have seen in the past few years that the coach does not make changes to the starting lineup easily. It is great to have a nucleus of first-choice players, a lot less so for those who have to sit on the bench. Besides I believe I am in tremendous form. I will continue to give 100% but at the same time I have the right to express my disappointment."
Sniejder, meanwhile, added that he did not think that the squad had been divided into small cliques. "It is not obligatory that we should all be friends in order to play together and win games," he said. "And I don't have the impression that there are clans, or small cliques that are opposing each other. If that was the case I would react, because I am here to become champion of Europe."
That rug really tied the room together.Comment
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Nice six minute video, by the BBC, on the rivalry between (West) Germany and Holland...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18422106
Another MASSIVE game
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Holland will be going out by tonight. You'd *never* get that type of primadonna **** in the German team. No. ****ing. Way. Van der Vaart is completely up himself, the Dutch Beckham, totally full of himself. They'll go out nicely, watch them infighting on the pitch tonight. Overpaid knobheads, the lot of them.Comment
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Don't think Beckham ever came out with those kind of comments, in fairness.Comment
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