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Football Weekly podcast: Spurs' goal glut, Champions League preview and the MLS Cup final

Jermain Defoe hits five as Spurs go goal crazy. Plus, all the news ahead of the week's Champions League matches Dare you listen to the latest Football Weekly and find out? When you're done, post your comment on the blog below, find us on Facebook and ...

From JAMES RICHARDSON, BEN GREEN, SEAN INGLE, SID LOWE, BARRY GLENDENNING, JAMES DART, LEANDER SCHAERLAECKENS, PAOLO BANDINI, Guardian Unlimited,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Jermain Defoe,  Facebook Inc.,  Twitter Inc,  Barclays Premier League,  La Liga

Why McClaren was wise to snub Ajax

Steve McClaren looks dejected after his side FC Twente had been beaten on penalties in the Dutch cup final. Photograph: Robert Vos/EPA Well, at least he got to this final. And only bad luck kept Steve McClaren from hoisting the Dutch Cup, as his FC ...

From LEANDER SCHAERLAECKENS, Guardian Unlimited,  18 May 2009
Related Topics: Steve McClaren,  Environmental Protection Agency,  Eljero Elia,  Louis van Gaal,  Frank Rijkaard

My Eredivisie team of the year: a shop window for the rest of Europe, by Leander Schaerlaeckens

AZ Alkmaar's Stijn Schaars holds the Eredivisie trophy aloft. But will he still be there next season? Photograph: Ed Oudenaarden/AFP/Getty Images There is a feeling of ambivalence when it comes to selecting a team of the year in the Dutch Eredivisie. ...

From LEANDER SCHAERLAECKENS, Guardian Unlimited,  11 May 2009
Related Topics: FC Utrecht,  Michel Vorm,  Kenneth Perez,  Eljero Elia,  Louis van Gaal

Suárez and McClaren steal Dutch show

FC Twente's manager Steve McClaren is behind one of the club's most successful seasons in their history. Photograph: Glyn Kirk/AFP/Getty Images To a football fan, few things are as exciting as unbridled, gasp-inducing potential. And to that same fan, ...

From LEANDER SCHAERLAECKENS, Guardian Unlimited,  4 May 2009
Related Topics: Steve McClaren,  Isaac Newton,  Oleguer Presas,  UEFA Champions League,  Kenneth Perez

Football: Leander Schaerlaeckens on Ajax manager Marco van Basten's 6-2 defeat to PSV Eindhoven

Marco van Basten's Ajax side have missed out in the Eredivisie. Photograph: Ade Johnson/EPA We learned a number of things last week. AZ are deserving champions. There's no longer any such thing as a Big Three, only a Bigger Budget Three. Steve McClaren ...

From LEANDER SCHAERLAECKENS, Guardian Unlimited,  27 Apr 2009
Related Topics: PSV Eindhoven,  Oleguer Presas,  Steve McClaren,  Environmental Protection Agency,  Jeremain Lens

Dutch football round-up: How AZ Alkmaar became champions

AZ Alkmaar's coach Louis van Gaal, right, celebrates with staff and players after his side won the Eredivisie. Photograph: United Photos/Reuters At the start of the season 12 of Holland's foremost football pundits were asked to predict the final ...

From LEANDER SCHAERLAECKENS, Guardian Unlimited,  20 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Louis van Gaal,  Maarten Martens,  Gill Swerts,  Mounir El Hamdaoui (footballer)

Leander Schaerlaeckens: The new Dutch wide boys

Roy Beerens is the first traditional winger in orange since Marc Overmars - if only, as it is here, for the Dutch Under 21 side. Photograph: Christof Koepsel/Bongarts Certain things are dying out in the Netherlands. Traditional windmills for example. ...

From LEANDER SCHAERLAECKENS, Guardian Unlimited,  13 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Kenneth Perez,  Marc Overmars,  Roy Beerens,  Eljero Elia,  Sander Boschker

AZ Alkmaar stay on course for title

Joey Didulica has recaptured his place as the first-choice goalkeeper in AZ Alkmaar's title-chasing team. Photograph: Javier Soriano/AFP Cast your mind back to 22 October 2006. In the dying seconds of a 3-1 loss at home to PSV, AZ's Croatian-Australian ...

From LEANDER SCHAERLAECKENS, Guardian Unlimited,  6 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Jason Culina,  Joey Didulica (footballer),  Sergio Romero,  Louis van Gaal,  Maarten Martens

Eredivisie: The Uefa president's idea of merging the Dutch and Belgian leagues will find little support in the Netherlands

Michel Platini, the president of Uefa, believes the Dutch and Belgian leagues should merge. Photograph: Gaetan Bally/Keystone The Uefa president, Michel Platini, has a plan. The victims of his latest brain-burp are the Dutch and Belgian football ...

From LEANDER SCHAERLAECKENS, Guardian Unlimited,  23 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Michel Platini,  Marco van Basten,  Ibrahim Afellay,  Miralem Sulejmani,  FC Groningen

Eredivisie: Feyenoord beat PSV Eindhoven 1–0 in a mid-table tussle between the former greats of Dutch football

Feyenoord players celebrate after Leroy Fer, right, scored the winning goal against PSV Eindhoven. Photograph: Robert Vos/EPA Once one of the Eredivisie's classics, Sunday's match between Feyenoord and PSV Eindhoven was relegated to a mid-table tussle ...

From LEANDER SCHAERLAECKENS, Guardian Unlimited,  16 Mar 2009
Related Topics: PSV Eindhoven,  Giovanni van Bronckhorst,  Leroy Fer,  Environmental Protection Agency,  UEFA Champions League

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