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World Cup Mania: Spain 1-0 Holland Comments Off

Posted on 16 Jul 2010. By Alun Goodmass. Filed under Orange Football

Being Scottish I am perhaps not really qualified to delve deep into the nature of World-cup winning potential and strategy as even in the good years we never got further than the first group stages of either the World Cup or the European Championship. more »»

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Dutch Eredivisie — promotion/relegation playoffs Comments Off

Posted on 29 May 2010. By Alun Goodmass. Filed under Orange Football

In this second post-competition blog report the story of the teams being relegated from the Eredivisie to the Jupiler League (second division) and the teams going up the other way.

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Dutch Eredivisie — European places & Europa League playoffs Comments Off

Posted on 29 May 2010. By Alun Goodmass. Filed under Orange Football

This is one of two blog posts intended to round off the reporting of the whole proceedings of the Dutch Eredivisie 2009/10. The other will list the final relegation news.

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Dutch Eredivisie — match round 34 — the climax! (2)

Posted on 2 May 2010. By Alun Goodmass. Filed under Orange Football

So this was it. Down to the last day of the competition and two possible candidates for the title. FC Twente and Ajax Amsterdam. And it nearly did go down to the wire. more »»

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Dutch Eredivisie — match rounds 32-33 Comments Off

Posted on 18 Apr 2010. By Alun Goodmass. Filed under Orange Football

Round 32 – summary

It was a tough week for the Eredivisie clubs. Midweek, they all had catch-up games to be played and given the stage of the season more »»

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Dutch Eredivisie — match round 31 Comments Off

Posted on 11 Apr 2010. By Alun Goodmass. Filed under Orange Football

Leaders Twente Enschede were at home to Heerenveen. The Fresians have not had the best of seasons and were not expected to form much of an impediment to Steve McLaren’s outfit’s title chances. more »»

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