lestatdark said:
weaveworld said:
So sorry for the negativity about the Dutch around here... Sore losers?
If there was any team that had it's share of fair play it had been the Dutch so far. And whoever brought up '06, yeah that was a shame but not only on our part. I will not go into a discussion about that but it's better no one goes around blaming the Dutch for that awful match.
What? we've won because some Brasilian lost its temper??? Bullshit. If by any chance the ref was good this match he was surely not in favor of the Dutch. Brasil got away with some recurring fouls without getting a card where a card was long due in the first half.
Other than that... I don't care!!! Revenge for '94 and '98!!!
Imho it was a deserved victory. Tough fight, good match, and no really strange decisions by the ref. 5 down, 2 to go!!!
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It was me that brought it up (the 2006 match). but as I said, in 2006 both Portugal and Holland were at fault for that awful match. Both for the Portuguese players to lose their tempers like that and Van Bommel's incessant tackles until he broke Ronaldo's leg and he still laughed about it.
Anyway, today it was a very deserved win for Holland, especially for the way the completely dominated Brazil on the second half. If Holland had taken the, quite easy, chances that they had at the end of the game, it would have easily ended 4-1.
I hope they go through to the final, as they currently are amongst my two favourite teams to win the WC (the second being Germany). A Holland - Germany final would be epic 
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Ah... glad it was you
It's hard to stay neutral when the Dutch are playing and it's nice to read positive things about our team. (football thread)
94 and 98 were very tough beatings for us, this is somewhat 'revenge' for those games because Brasil 'always' kicks us out... Now if we can take out Uruguay it will leave us with hopefully Germany or Argentina with whom we've got a score to settle (74 and 78)
Personally i'd like Argentina, for the way the tournament was refereed in '78. To me we've had our revenge on the Germans in '88 and nowadays both Dutch and Germans are happy to support eachother.
