http://www.theoffside.com League Football, Soccer News and Views from Around the World Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:55:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/rewinding-the-classics-shteeves-back.html http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/rewinding-the-classics-shteeves-back.html#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:31:12 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/rewinding-the-classics-shteeves-back.html Steve McClaren’s back in Enschede. No one cares. What matters is that Steve is back to speaking Dutch again. Heading back into the archives for one of the gems of the footby-related YouTubery, we have Shteeve van Klaaren. Or however you choose to mangle it in order to get something vaguely Dutch. A culture with which [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/rewinding-the-classics-shteeves-back.html/feed 0 http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/photo-the-dutch-matrix.html http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/photo-the-dutch-matrix.html#comments Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:15:50 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/photo-the-dutch-matrix.html The Dutch Cup clash suspended over the above fan attack has been declared to resume in mid-January, with AZ keeper Alvaro Esteban getting off without a suspension. Plus we get what might be the photo of the year, possibly courtesy of John Woo. Silver linings and all. (Olaf Kraak/AFP/Getty) ]]> http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/photo-the-dutch-matrix.html/feed 0 http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/keeper-owns-fan-referee-owns-keeper.html http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/keeper-owns-fan-referee-owns-keeper.html#comments Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:12:16 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/keeper-owns-fan-referee-owns-keeper.html A drunk fan decided that the best way to utilize his buzz during the Dutch Cup clash between AZ and Ajax was to attack AZ’s keeper Esteban Alvarado because…well, he was drunk. So the keeper defended himself, then attacked the intruder with his boots and boiling anger. Understandably. However, the referee decided he should then [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/keeper-owns-fan-referee-owns-keeper.html/feed 2 http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/nurturing-the-next-stjarnan.html http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/nurturing-the-next-stjarnan.html#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:06:12 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/nurturing-the-next-stjarnan.html Out of their legendary academy and youth setup comes Ajax’s D1 team, which is comprised of those with a birth year of 1999. So in the general vicinity of 12 years old, says the trusty abacus. Which means… They’re probably too young to be scoring goals like this beauty. Probably a little bit early for machine [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/nurturing-the-next-stjarnan.html/feed 0 http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/the-power-of-the-internet.html http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/the-power-of-the-internet.html#comments Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:56:38 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/the-power-of-the-internet.html Who doesn’t love the Wikipedia game? (Employers, actually, but work with me.) Start out somewhere random and hours later, land somewhere even more random after 42,817 clicks of the mouse. Like starting at Anis Ben-Hatira and ending at Mata Hari. Apparently it works with football videos too. The above is a minor skirmish – beginning at [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/the-power-of-the-internet.html/feed 0 http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/peter-wisgerhof-dive-team-legend.html http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/peter-wisgerhof-dive-team-legend.html#comments Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:28:54 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/peter-wisgerhof-dive-team-legend.html What’s funny about this is just into the second half, Twente’s Steven Berghuis was sent off for diving which, while technically ahead of impact itself, also looked like he was smartly avoiding a compound fracture and months in traction. The ref was simply taking care of things in advance, it seems, for this inevitable travesty [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/peter-wisgerhof-dive-team-legend.html/feed 0 http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/fc-twentes-stadium-collapses.html http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/fc-twentes-stadium-collapses.html#comments Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:34:52 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/fc-twentes-stadium-collapses.html Rather alarming news from out of Enschede today, as FC Twente’s stadium – De Grolsch Veste – has collapsed and there are people trapped underneath, with rumors, if no confirmations, of “casualties”. This is no small stadium; not, considering, their presence in the Champions League, and though it was under construction, which sounds the culprit, [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/fc-twentes-stadium-collapses.html/feed 0 http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/vvv-venlo-now-handing-out-contracts-to-one-year-olds.html http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/vvv-venlo-now-handing-out-contracts-to-one-year-olds.html#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:28:29 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/vvv-venlo-now-handing-out-contracts-to-one-year-olds.html Sports parent alert? What would seemingly be the product of the maniacal machinations of the PR department deep down seems anything but, and it’s quite frightening. That one year old ‘phenom’ who can put his toys away, basically? He just signed a ten year deal with VVV Venlo. “Symbolic”. Yeah, let’s see how that plays out when [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/vvv-venlo-now-handing-out-contracts-to-one-year-olds.html/feed 0 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/ajax-fans-cheer-for-feyenoord-apocalypse-forthcoming.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/ajax-fans-cheer-for-feyenoord-apocalypse-forthcoming.html#comments Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:00:00 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/ajax-fans-cheer-for-feyenoord-apocalypse-forthcoming.html As we slip ‘n slide into squeaky bum time, we also enter into the portion of the season where the pitch is equally as important as the video board. And often, we’ll see the crowd erupt when nothing of note has happened on the pitch, but rather something of note has happened down the road [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/ajax-fans-cheer-for-feyenoord-apocalypse-forthcoming.html/feed 0 http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/fc-twentes-wrecking-ball-douglas.html http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/fc-twentes-wrecking-ball-douglas.html#comments Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:00:39 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/fc-twentes-wrecking-ball-douglas.html This is an excellent seminar in “losing one’s cool” by Douglas, a very good defender, of FC Twente, who, this weekend, enjoyed a three-stage mini-meltdown, escalating in both intent and awesomeness as he went along. i. The red card foul, in which he swing wildly back, felled by both his loss of cool and the “embellishment” [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/dutch-eredivisie/fc-twentes-wrecking-ball-douglas.html/feed 0