7/1 for Italy is very good money.

I also think Switzerland are better than 100/1, I see them more as 30/1 myself. Perhaps you could get good odds on them reaching the quarter-finals.

Roy Keane is an asshole who is a serious healthrisk to any opponent on the pitch I bet you can't give me an example of Roy Keane actually injuring an opposition player. (Alfie Haaland doesn't count because he didn't sustain any injuries) The tabloid views are just so easy to regurgitate, aren't they?

Roy Keane for Ajax anyone?

When Ireland played Turkey in a playoff in 1999 they purposely had the match in Bursa, where the airport had been closed and all roads cut off due to the earthquake. Why they didn't have the match in Istanbul like they always do was a mystery. So the Irish team had to go by plane, boat, train and bu...

Did you not see his two assists in Thun?

That's a load of arse, in my opinion.

But each man has a right to his own view on things, I suppose.

Lubo Moravcik, a similar kind of a player, was very successful at Celtic.

Ruud Krol knows how to get these guys to win in Nijmegen. His weeks in charge were like a breath of fresh air. Brilliantly brief press conferences and a no-bullshit approach to the job.

(yeah, wrong thread huh :D)

Pienaar is the most valuable player at the club, in my opinion. There's no use comparing him to Rosales, because Pienaar is not a right winger at all. In every match as a right winger his important contributions have come when he decided, "sod this, I'm playing in the centre". Sure, Sneijder can sho...

Blind was genuinely fucking delighted with that goal (who wasn't?) but he went back into the dugout when he realised the camera was on him. He ain't foolin' me.

I need to downlaod that third goal as soon as possible.

Pienaar's flick for the fourth was fantastic too, but that third goal reminded me why I like football.

I think a good team should be good at many formations and many tactics. This is how Brazil won the last world cup. They could switch from 4-2-4 to 4-4-2 and 4-5-1 like it was no problem at all. Yet when Ajax is forced by injury to play a different tactic, we don't - instead we play our best players ...

I'm not saying that Ajax should play 4-4-2 long term, I'm just saying that it's stupid to waste Babel and Pienaar on the wings to accomodate a certain system. You need to play your players in their natural positions and 4-4-2 against Herenveen would have allowed Babel to play as a forward with Piena...

I'm convinced we would have won if we had played 4-4-2 with Babel and Anastaciou up front. Ok, so ideally you would like to see Ajax playing some form of 4-3-3, but if you don't have the players for it [i.e. 4-3-3 style wingers] then what's the point of wasting Babel and Pienaar on the wing? I reall...

So the Bos Cafe is not in anymore?

Hmm... I don't get the horse joke.

2 tonnes of concrete were stolen from the cement factory last night.

The police are looking for hardened criminals.

I don't know either, but I want that Johnny Boy avatar.

I think everyone agrees that Holland had the best team and played the best football in 1974 I don't, they were one of the two best teams at that World Cup, along with West Germany. From a historical perspective and for political reasons, the final in 1974 has always been painted as the brilliantly ...

Crooks broke into the Police station last night and stole all the toilet seats.

The police have nothing to go on.

Anything based on FIFA rankings is arse.

There was nothing much to say about Juanfran anyway.

I wonder if he's not the new Ole Tobiasen.

Haaland tried to sue Keane for damages due to a career ending injury, but he never even got to court. There wasn't a lawyer in England stupid enough to represent him because he had already published on his website that the injury was a long term one that had nothing to do with Roy Keane's tackle. Bu...

He should have been banned for life after having confessed to breaking some guy's leg on purpose.

I would agree with you, but he didn't break some guy's leg, so there you go.

I perfer having Robbie than Roy

Yeah, another "fuck you" boy who thinks he's god's gift to football, that's exactly what Ajax needs.

Hey, don't knock the great man. Indeed, his contract is up in June 2006.

Imagine him and Sneijder in midfield together. Poor Wesley would be scared shitless.