Why do you like Holland?

Im an awful Dutchie

I really cant vote for amsterdam as capital, I just deny it!

look how crazy those English are for us!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/poll/2008/may/30/euro2008.chooseateam

Even the Daily Mail is behind us now!

GO TEAM HOLLAND: 10 reasons why we won't be passing the Dutchies on the left-hand side

Sportsmail online is delighted to report that, as from Saturday June 7, we will be going Dutch. With no England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland - or even Eire - to get behind, for three weeks this summer, we are Holland fans. And here's 10 reasons why...

1. The Dutch like darts. And so do we.
2. The 1988 European Championship-winning side of Ruud Gullit, Marco van Basten, Frank Rijkaard and Adrie van Tiggelen was TOTAL FOOTBALL. And who can forget Van Basten's stunning volley against the USSR? Unquestionably the greatest European Championships' goal of all time.
3. The Orange influx to England has had a huge and impressive impact on the English game with talents such as Gullit, Johnny Metgod, Dennis Bergkamp, Marc Overmars, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Jaap Stam.
4. The Dutch have also provided some comedy imports including hopelessly out-of-his depth Jordi Cruyff, the money for nothing and probably chicks for free Winston Bogarde, the money for nothing and almost certainly chicks for free Patrick Kluivert and Marco Boogers.
Boogers was a £1m signing by Harry Redknapp who quit West Ham due to stress, and was found weeks later in a Dutch caravan park.


5. Holland play in orange. It's an exciting, vibrant colour like some of the world's most exciting things like oranges, Orange County, and er, orange juice.
6. They have a slightly musical way of speaking Englissssshhhh that'shhh jushhht fantashhhtic. Obviously English people should be completely ashamed that Dutch people's vocabulary in both languages is larger than theirs . But they don't and they prefer to cover their ignorance with puerile acshent gagsh.
7. The Dutch are a notoriously tall people making them easy to follow, even in a crowd.
8. Sure we've had a few blow-ups in the past - as little seafaring nations do (three Anglo-Dutch wars between 1652 and 1674) - but relations between England and Holland have largely been friendly since then, and there's not many countries that that could be said about.
9. Call us lazy but what's not to love about a flat country - it's not great for hill walkers or downhill skiiers but very good for cyclists. Besides you can't please everyone.
10. There is a well-worn phrase about "going Dutch" and we're easily led

Other stereotypical Dutch things we like: the fact they hate the Germans - big time, weekends in the beautiful and relaxed surrounds of Amsterdam, Edam, Grolsch, Van Gogh, Heineken, Delft Blue Pottery.
So instead of crying God for England, Harry and St George, here at Sportsmail Towers, we'll be crying Jaap for der Nederlands, Van Halen and St Cruyff.

Rinus Michels, totall football.
Ajax, Barca, Cruyff ( sorry Fey)
Feyenoord, Smolarek & son, Leo Beenhakker

Great painters, Huizinga and Karen Mulder

Going Dutch: Guardian readers say Brits must back the Netherlands in Euro 2008

96,2% that's like the North Korean elections.



It has taken a labyrinthine process of celebrity endorsements, two rounds of voting and the unravelling of an intricate internet election scam.

But Guardian readers have finally produced a definitive answer to the big question about Euro 2008, at least if you're British - who to support in the first major football tournament without either a British or an Irish presence since 1984. And the answer is: the Netherlands. The final verdict was arrived at via an online poll from a shortlist of Romania, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands and Germany.

The result has already been greeted with jubilation, and a little inadvertent schadenfreude, by the Dutch embassy. "As we are not unfamiliar with missing out on a big tournament, we are especially proud and honoured that the country that is the cradle of football has chosen to support the Dutch national side," the Dutch ambassador, Pim Waldeck, said last night.

There were 48,232 votes cast in the poll, the overwhelming majority of them - 96.2% - for the Netherlands. Spain came second with 1.8% of the vote, followed by Germany (1.4%); Sweden (0.4%) and Romania (0.2%). If the level of support for the Netherlands seems surprisingly high, it is because Dutch ingenuity even extended to hacking into and trying to rig the Guardian's online poll.

In the final days of voting, the Dutch website GeenStijl (literally "no style") instigated a campaign to tilt the balance their country's way, eventually spawning a triumphant piece of hacking that gave Holland an improbable percentage of the votes.

Since they would have won without cheating, the Guardian decided not to disqualify the team.

The formal rallying call to the Dutch had been issued by Geoff Hurst, who wrote with some passion about the style of play, a fusion of "technique and playing with imagination". He also noted the appeal of tulips and, perhaps more crucially, the reputation of the Netherlands as a "nearly team", a bunch of almost-champions with a history of almost-triumph.

The British have always loved a runner-up. The Dutch team of the 1970s reached two successive World Cup finals and lost both of them. British football supporters will feel their pain. As the journalist Juan Gabriel Vásquez pointed out, this sentiment could have led us into the arms of Spain. Vásquez hoped that "the British will relate to Spaniards' record of pain and defeat".

The pop singer Robyn took up the cudgels for Sweden, mentioning Abba and the fact that Sweden is "a world leader in fighting climate change".

Comedian Henning Wehn told voters to back Germany because Germans are "efficient and logical human beings" who have no truck with self-deprecation and, interestingly, because the Dutch can be annoying when you live next door to them.

Finally, the Liberal Democrat housing spokesman, Lembit Opik, told us to support Romania because he is engaged to a member of pop group the Cheeky Girls.

At the end of which, the decision to back the Dutch has much to commend it.

There has long been a sense that the Dutch play football in the "right" way, with a style based around technical expertise and tactical acuity, allied to the more physical, typically northern European attributes of our own game. We like the way the Dutch play; we also like the Dutch player himself, a famously outspoken individual in the dressing room, unafraid to voice articulate and contrary opinions.

Now get out there and bring back that trophy. "Hup Holland Hup!" as we say in the orange section.

What to say
He's big, he's Dutch, he doesn't let in much (on Edwin van der Sar)

Hij is groot, hij is Hollands, hij laat niet veel door

We're walking in a Marco van Basten wonderland

We wandelen in een Marco van Basten wonderland

Ruud van Nistelrooy, tra la la la la (to the tune of Brown Girl in the Ring)

As above

They could have chosen someone more likeable than Ruud to throw in there jesus!

But im sure every 90% of English fans will support Holland. If it wasnt for Torres, Cesc and Ronaldo taking club fans to those countries them 3 players play for, it would be 100%

you forgot Ballack and Jens fans supporting Germany

think about it

It really is amazing how many people love the Dutch!! I mean, being liked by the english..that says something!!!

I love England too.

NOBODY loves Holland

they love the IDEA of Holland

VERY different things

No, I think there arse some people out there who really love this country otto!

Besides, what you mean the idea of holland?

Eurottomeister wrote:you forgot Ballack and Jens fans supporting Germany

All four of them ?

Even Merkel is wearing orange!

Italians scared shitless!


In Olanda è orange-mania pure i denti sono colorati




L'idea è di uno studio dentistico di Amsterdam: una tecnica consente di installare sulla dentatura una pellicola sottile che li colora di arancione. I tifosi della squadra di Van Basten sono entusiasti
La pubblicità dello studio dentistico olandese.

AMSTERDAM (Olanda), 3 giugno 2008 - In Olanda la febbre Oranje sta decisamente salendo. Non solo le strade, i negozi, le auto si colorano di arancione, ma ora anche i denti dei tifosi locali. Infatti, uno studio dentistico di Amsterdam, Dental Pars in collaborazione con il laboratorio odontotecnico Tooth Fashion, ha sviluppato una nuova tecnica per cui sulla dentatura viene apposto uno strato sottile, spesso un millimetro, di materiale termoplastico. Nel giro di un quarto d’ora si può sfoggiare una dentatura nel colore della casa reale d’Orange.

LA TECNICA - “E’ una tecnica piuttosto semplice, basta prendere l’impronta dell’arcata, fare un modello in gesso e modellarci sopra questo speciale composto odontoiatrico arancione e il gioco è fatto” racconta l’odontotecnico Yuri Tjon-A-Joe (31 anni), che ha avuto l’idea per questo nuovissimo supporto alla tifoseria olandese. “La pellicola si mette e si leva a piacere, si può tranquillamente bere birra quando si guarda la partita, però è meglio non mangiarci perché non è molto igienico. Alcuni clienti ci dormono anche, solo che io lo sconsiglio perché ci sono delle persone che digrignano i denti nel sonno e così potrebbero danneggiare la pellicola, che però è molto resistente e può anche durare degli anni.” Tjon-A-Joe ha anche richiesto un brevetto per un sistema che consenta di applicare questo prodotto anche in casa, senza l’intermediazione di un dentista, ma per questo ci vorrà ancora un po’.

SUCCESSO IMPROVVISO - Da stamattina, quando è uscito un breve articolo sul Telegraaf, lo studio è stato subissato di telefonate di entusiasti che vogliono dire alla squadra di Van Basten: “Mostra i denti!” Peraltro il nuovo gadget ha un prezzo molto abbordabile: 15 Euro ad arcata. E poi se l’Olanda fosse subito eliminata, la copertura arancione si può togliere senza problemi. Quando abbiamo chiesto al signor Tjon-A-Joe se per lunedì 9 giugno si facesse in tempo a realizzare anche una dentatura azzurra per i nostri tifosi in Olanda, ha sorriso: “Purtroppo per questa versione dovremo aspettare almeno fino ai Mondiali del 2010.”

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And Im sure there a lot of people who are actually gonna do this!

I think im leaving the country when the EC is here! Nutters!!

Anyway, with the huge English supporters behind us now, should we sing 10 german bombers now? I mean someone has to do it!

After the english...even Allah is behind us.. Aanvallah

Looks good, now we need some carrots, that could be used as a dynamite belt..and its all set!