One problem is the amount of players in their last season of contract.Yes I know I keep on about this but it is the biggest potential crisis in the club. Trabelsi, de Jong, Galasek, Pienaar, not forgeting Vonk, Boukhari and Anastasiou. It could well be that all of them will be at new clubs next summ...

A question to Ko about dutch labour laws. ( or for anyone else of course) I know there is a difference but you have made your comments about Chelsea trying to pinch our 17 year old kids but we are after a17 year old Belgium boy from Anderlect . I know we will have to pay real money to Anderlect but ...

I have to put my hands up to watching Lost. Yes it is good for an American Series.

Will Juanfran ever get to play for us!! We have signed a guy who is not fit and when he finally plays for the reserves is sent off and wont be available until Nov. Doubt we will risk him for the Thun match. He will not have played in the 3 big games F-Word, PSV and AZ.nor our first 3CL games.By the ...

I dislike Beckham and cheered like mad when he was sent off. I actually did not think he should have got one yellow let alone 2. ( Good on yer Referee.) He is the first Englishman to have been sent off twice. Another record for the overrated ponce. As for England I believe they will actually qualify...

Great conflicts of reports today. The report yesterday stated that Lerby was the agent for Gossens and Sarpong. Today's report states comments from the boys agents and they are certainly not Lerby. They have said no interest from Chelsea but there has been some interest for Goosens. Question to Ko o...

Frans is right in the last post. Ajax need to offer contracts and get these kids signed up and in the Young Team. The 19/20 year olds I quoted earlier are being thrashed at present.

I too was very upset about Chelsea stealing our youth but having spent a couple of hours thinking about it there is only one club to blame here and that is Ajax. These 2 lads were both 17 back in the summer and are talents having played for the Dutch U17's before this tournement. The other U17 Anita...

I thought I would mention that I watched a bit of Holland u17's who finished 3rd in the U17's World Cup. 3 Ajax boys played and all looked good Jeffrey Sarpong in mid field scored 2 goals v USA , in the 3rd place game John Goossens scored both goals (Holland beat Turkey 2-1) and Vurnon Anita also lo...

Great game Nigel. Back in midfield and scoring goals.

Now Ajax offer him a decent contract and stop pissing him about.

Thanks for the translation of Balompie.

We have not lost so many in the last 3 /4 years. Chivu and VDM in 2003 Zlatan 2004 and VDV 2005. 4 very good players but in fact only 2 came from our academy. We do produce lots of youngsters and many do not make it or we let them go before they mature. I have the QPR programme from July 2004 and of...

Any hope that the bunch of clowns in charge will ever get round to offering a new deal before this time next season!!!!!

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Reyes looked for the penalty but Vonk was at fault , he did not need to go diving like a madman . One point Pienaar for all his ability cannot score goals, he missed a sitter before half time.Surely a NO 10 playmaker should be a goalscorer. He never will be. It was a shame we had alot of injuries fo...

Just to put you straight this was not Arsenal reserves. The goalie is but the only injured players are Henry, Gilberto and Bergkamp. On the subject of reserves I think it is true to say that was nearly our reseves. If we had Trabelsi, Escude, Maxwell, Maduro , Sneijder, Rosales, and Mitea we would n...

I am glad I have started up the debate about the biggest problem at this club, ie Bosman rearing its ugly head again. I agree Trabelsi is unlikely to go in January but as for Pienaar the press over here are predicting he will leave for free next summer. He is playing well but is injury prone. Maxwel...

Without Henry and Bergkamp Arsenal are not half the team and their away form has been poor. In fact their form in Europe is always poor but our form is no better. As you know my 16 year old is an Arsenal fan . We will be watching the game tonight in different rooms, he wont sit and watch a game on T...

ODD QUESTION.


I keep seeing the Seville team Real Betis being called Real Betis Balompie.


What does the word Balompie mean or why has it been added???

Can anyone please supply the answer??

I am confident Blind will get us back to the top of the league at least and put this club on the right lines but he must be given time.He must be given this season and half of next before we can judge him. All clubs demand instant success and managers/coaches are only ever given a year. You have to ...

Lay off the mighty Oxford . I was born in the city still think it is the most wonderful place on earth and the old Manor unique. For 3 seasons back in the 80's they were in the top league. The old ground was very bad though . Turning to Brighton I should inform everone that their biggest rivals are ...

One point that I was going to mention before . Is Van Basten doing this club any favours by putting every young dutch kid in the full Orange side. Babel, Maduro and now Emanuelson have all been put straight into the full national squad before they have really started their careers and this might mak...

Most papers in UK are of course going on about the charges of English clubs. I paid £8 to watch Worthing which is in the 3rd level of Non League. I am told that if I wanted to watch Brighton in the Championship , 2nd Division to everyone else, it would cost me £22. They play in a small athletics sta...

Lots of criticism about Babel, an 18 year old who is played on the wing and out of position.

Give the boy a chance.

We will still be challenging for the title come May and next week we play Arsenal without Henry and with no Veira they are not the same side. We can beat them. Have faith.

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I saw the goal on Eurosport, completely impossible to judge and that was from the side angle camera.The ref did not have that view so I do not know how he could give it. Sadly he did.

I was unable to watch the game as Junior was watching Arsenal. I do get to watch 4 out of the 5 other games live ( miss one of the Thun games) I think we have a good chance against the Arsenal. They are without Henry and with Veira sold and not replaced they do not look the same team. The game does ...