Most of my favourite Dutch players were in the Class of '74 - Neeskens, Krol, Repp, Rensenbrink, the van der Kerkhof brothers and of course the man who had a 'turn' named after him...
But a random Dutch cult hero from the 90s - I give you Real Madrid's very own Clarence Seedorf.
Not forgetting Wim van Hanagem, Wim Jansen and Aarie Haan. @glasshalfempty must be kicking himself that he missed that side.
Also, vaguely linked to the van der Kerkhofs and Wim Jansen, it's clear to me that if Wycombe are going to get anywhere, then we need brothers in the squad and a redhead. Anyone know what Steve Whitby is doing these days? Or if Freddie Potts has a brother at all?
The Milan boys were pretty legendary. Imagine following a country where Van Basten , Gullit and Rijkaard aren't immediately at the top of everyone's list. That Bergkamp chap could play a bit too, even if he mistakenly didn't immediately pull out the cash for the dream project in Bucks.
Do you mind if I ask how things are going for you there, Tom? You seem very prolific based on your profile there. Are you full time with them or still independent?
Technically still freelance, but I have a contract for an ongoing project with them (essentially a huge bunch of these lists which are syndicated by MSN and reformatted for print), so I'm as good as full-time in terms of the volume of my work FFT takes up! Then I do bits here and there for various others in football, and I've very recently started doing some copy for a local charity too. A bit of variety!
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Winston Bogarde clearly number one. The ultimate mercenary.
Here is the League 1 Form Table (last 10 matches), and Stevenage are indeed 19th:
Indeed! Updates for historical stats, MOTM final scores - so much to look forward to. Who needs the games?
Most of my favourite Dutch players were in the Class of '74 - Neeskens, Krol, Repp, Rensenbrink, the van der Kerkhof brothers and of course the man who had a 'turn' named after him...
But a random Dutch cult hero from the 90s - I give you Real Madrid's very own Clarence Seedorf.
Gus Uhlenbeek, obviously
Not forgetting Wim van Hanagem, Wim Jansen and Aarie Haan. @glasshalfempty must be kicking himself that he missed that side.
Also, vaguely linked to the van der Kerkhofs and Wim Jansen, it's clear to me that if Wycombe are going to get anywhere, then we need brothers in the squad and a redhead. Anyone know what Steve Whitby is doing these days? Or if Freddie Potts has a brother at all?
What about those identical twins in the Frank Adams upper? Get them involved
Oh I admire many things Dutch, they’re just not football-related.
Oven?
Wife?
The stats?
The circle is complete!
Could we start calling him Ricello?
Based on various comments, Vokes may have to be nicknamed 'HR' as he is so good at layoffs.
Johnny Metgod...enjoy the 30 second clip!
https://youtu.be/1XysTzt--ik
It's Big Nige's middle name that's Cello isn't it?
Or am I missing a joke?
42 points from our first 12 and last 10 games combined.
16 from the other 21.
Shame.
Surely we already have a 20 goal a season man in the building in Lonwijk! Let's get him up top alongside Kone, they'd be unplayable.
On that note, we should play JJ up front against Charlton. He is one goal involvement away from 100.
The Milan boys were pretty legendary. Imagine following a country where Van Basten , Gullit and Rijkaard aren't immediately at the top of everyone's list. That Bergkamp chap could play a bit too, even if he mistakenly didn't immediately pull out the cash for the dream project in Bucks.
Play for corners straight from kick off for 90 minutes.
Mad to think what Basta would have achieved with a full career
In fact, we did this very ranking at FourFourTwo recently. Always hesitant to share these as we'll inevitably have somehow made a glaring omission... https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/the-best-dutch-footballers-ever
Do you mind if I ask how things are going for you there, Tom? You seem very prolific based on your profile there. Are you full time with them or still independent?
Technically still freelance, but I have a contract for an ongoing project with them (essentially a huge bunch of these lists which are syndicated by MSN and reformatted for print), so I'm as good as full-time in terms of the volume of my work FFT takes up! Then I do bits here and there for various others in football, and I've very recently started doing some copy for a local charity too. A bit of variety!
It sounds pretty exhilarating and right up your street! Congratulations on the success, and good luck for the future.
I’m really pleased to hear this. Congratulations!
Thanks! I'm trying to work Wycombe into the magazine if I can 👀 We must be massive enough for a cover feature by now.
Maybe a promotion with collectible Wycombe stickers for Reading fans?
I second that Tom. 👍👍