Spain v Holland.

That is what i cant stand about football.  It is, on the face of it, a very simple game, but that in turn makes it very complex regards outmaneouvring your opponent and actually winning games.  The standard of analysis, in this country at least, is diabolical.  Lawro just letting words leave his lips without thinking at all there.  He scored therefore it was a good penalty, not far off saying a team won therefore they deserved to win.  He gave the gk a real good chance of saving there.  Would like to watch again, think having guessed the right way the gk might have made a mistake actually.

Decisions change Games .. as Stan Collymore may say !

And then using the goal line technology to show that the penalty was actually a goal.  Jesus wept, how many dodgy, match changing decisions have we had in this world cup already and they make no effort to sort it out.  Ref makes a mistake, end of.  They should at least try to use technology to sort out offsides and even sending offs.  Then they use goal line technology to prove that that penalty was a goal.  The game is on its @rse.

What a goal by persie... See the game has so much going for it, cant recallseeing one like that before ever.

3-2 is on !

wow, that was sheer class

happy with that. got group a, b and f for group with most goals. 2 grand stakes altogether split across the 3, so not pocket money. plus got van parsley as one of my top scorer bets. not got diego costa so glad he didnt take the penalty.

awesome header

One of the best headers I've ever seen!

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holland have looked pretty good so far. 42 for the cup, seen worse bets.

this is one of the best teams in the tourny, holland dont look out of place for me. sneijder should have scored, robben was about 1 inch offside or he could have scored. look very dangerous on the breakski.

they were Brilliant last world cup bob , always knew they were underrated , too much emphasis on the big teams imo

Not quite as strong team this time though , so not sure they're capable of Winning !

i have backed them before the start but got 8 teams.

brazil, argentina, spain, germany, ronaldugal, holland, chile and colombia.

not taking too many chances am i?

1-2

System going well, send more money.

jaysus!

Ha ha spelling.  Where does that line come from, i have heard it before.

Holland on fire now.

I'm on 3-3 at 120

3-2 at 19.5

I can't remember rob but if the results keep going like this it will be my epitaph.

!!!!

Holland tearing Spain a new one.

FLAGZUP!

who said this was gonna be 0-0?

Spain 1.7 and holland 2.14 to reach qfs.  .????

That would be me bob

think its safe to say, spain are right in the sh1te

Qiuick google reveals nothing spelling, defo have heard it somewhere.

Is it a paraphrase of the French WW1 general who said something like "My right wing under pressure, my left in retreat, situationn excellent!"?

4-1

FFS ! 3-3 gone

this is embarrassing 

wtf are spain doing?

Spain are in deep trouble to even get out of the group now. The keeper needs shooting for that effort. Fair play to Holland though.

It came down to about 11 Leopard. You should have made something out of that bet.

Was ordering a takeaway....I let it ride

holland chile play each other last match. what price a draw to take em both through?????????

Who could possibly have predicted this scoreline?

The beauty of sport spelling.  Unpredictability is the only predictable thing.  I guess 5-1 would be well in excess of the 33-1 england are to win.

What an unbelievable goal that was!

WOW !!

WHATTA GOAL

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Under 2.5 looks the bet, for me. I just cannot see this being a goal fest mesen.   

That is how to finish a goal.  Lets have six.

spain dont know when to quit.

could be 10-1 at this rate

MAYBE I WAS WRONG ABOUT CASILLAS !!!

'citin' !

Even Lawrenson's getting a tad stirred by this.

he will do in a murrment!

the Spanish lost their opening game at the last WC against Switzerland

Kenny, when I get it wrong at least I get it seriously wrong 

good spot.

pretty sure they didnt get mullered like this though!

they need a miracle to come back from this.

You deserve a Cheeseboard Ban for this ..

lol, you do spelling.

i bet diego costa doesnt start next game! back to zero strikers

3 Nights !!

if this game lasted another hour, itd be 15-1 at least

never seen the world champions trying to cling on to a 5-1 defeat!

monumental proportions!

what a great side to watch this holland side

tikka tacky is finnish?

I don't deserve a cheeseboard tonight, I've put myself on basic rations this evening. A crisp sandwich and that's it.

Holland were totally awesome, fair play.

Fantastic to see the Dutch play like that again.

Spelling ...don't use food as a reward....weight gain results.

Friday the 13th
Back Spain at 10/11
Watch 15 to 1 while eating dinner
Switch over at first ad break - it's 0-0
Switch over at 2nd ad break - Spain have a penalty - 1-0
Finish dinner st 8-35
'Would you like some cake with your cuppa?' asked Mrs CMAT
I tossed a coin - heads, I eat cake - tails, I go upstairs and look at the betting.
It was heads.
Now it's half time, so I went out into the garden for a smoke.
Came back in, looked at the betting - I'm not happy that Spain are 6/5 as it was 1-0 with 5 minutes to go to half time last time I looked.
They went as low as 1.33 before the Dutch equalised in the 44th minute.

Moral of story
You can't have your cake, and find time to eat it.

they were ..

I'm quite glad it's finished .. feel a bit ill after that !

was like brazil 82 all over again..haven't seen footy like that for years

Haha! Very good CMAT!

spain are in all kinda trouble now. holland could be through and rest half their team against chile final match.

they could be left needing to beat australia about 8-0!

This goal by Robben was just unbelievable.

That will definitely go down in the archives as one of the greatest of all time World Cup goals.

lol, class, taxi

that game was better than any in the world cup of 4 years ago

Agreed Pandora.

I'm 12 stone TL, weight is not an issue.

Spain will no doubt face Brazil if they get second in the group. That's them done for I would have thought.

I have a question.
Why didn't the Dutch play in orange?

I would imagine it was because Spain's official colour is red. Orange and red isn't enough contrast. No team would be given preference so they both had to change.

The home team get preference, surely?

What a great game.  Cant wait for the aussie game now.

Marketing ploy to sell shirts.

Home team at a World Cup, Pokermonster?

Remember, they wouldn't even let England play in white at Wembley in '66. They tossed for it.

Spain were the designated home team, I believe, so was surprised not to see them in their usual red shirts.

Well I wasn't. You see loads of anomalies at World Cups where the natural team colours wouldn't even clash but both have to change to their 2nd strip.

I think England are 'away' for two of their three group games this time around, Tom.

At least they are on the posters in my local.

haha!

This could be the best group of the tournament, especially if there's an upset later and Oz win.

- or even if Chile thrash Oz. That really would have Spain running scared.

None of this mattered in the days of black and white t.v.

FIFA ordered Spain to come up with a new strip.

Indeed, Kenny, just read about it.

Spain were designated as the home side and choose to play in their usual red shirts.  Fifa ruled, however, that red clashed with Holland's first and second choices and ordered Spain to change - hence both teams played in away kits.

Fair enough then if they do designate someone as the 'home' team - but as I've said, I've seen so many kit changes in the past which never made any sense I just thought it was up to whatever FIFA chose to do - as usual.

at what point did Holland  (for football purposes) become Nederlands ?

as a lad it was ALWAYS Holland, i'm sure

hence both teams played in away kits.
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i guess techically ,both teams were away 

Holland is a region and former province located on the western coast of the Netherlands. The name Holland is also frequently used as a pars pro toto to refer to the whole of the country of the Netherlands. This usage is generally accepted, but some individuals, particularly from the other parts of the Netherlands, dislike the use of "Holland" as a substitute for "the Netherlands".[2]

From the 10th to the 16th century, Holland proper was a unified political region within the Holy Roman Empire as a county ruled by the Counts of Holland. By the 17th century, Holland had risen to become a maritime and economic power, dominating the other provinces of the newly independent Dutch Republic.

Today, the former County of Holland roughly consists of the two Dutch provinces of North Holland and South Holland, which together include the Netherlands' three largest cities: the capital city of Amsterdam; the seat of government of The Hague; and Rotterdam, home of Europe's largest port.



The name Holland first appeared in sources in 866 for the region around Haarlem, and by 1064 was being used as the name of the entire county. By this time, the inhabitants of Holland were referring to themselves as "Hollanders".[3] Holland is derived from the Middle Dutch term holtland ("wooded land").[4] This spelling variation remained in use until around the 14th century, at which time the name stabilised as Holland (alternative spellings at the time were Hollant and Hollandt). A popular folk etymology holds that Holland is derived from hol land ("hollow land") and was inspired by the low-lying geography of Holland.[4]

The proper name of the area in both Dutch and English is "Holland". "Holland" is a part of the Netherlands. "Holland" is informally used in English and other languages, including sometimes the Dutch language itself, to mean the whole of the modern country of the Netherlands.[2] (This example of pars pro toto or synecdoche is similar to the tendency to refer to the United Kingdom as "England".).[5][6]

The people of Holland are referred to as "Hollanders" in both Dutch and English. Today this refers specifically to people from the current provinces of North Holland and South Holland. Strictly speaking, the term "Hollanders" does not refer to people from the other provinces in the Netherlands, but colloquially "Hollanders" is sometimes mistakenly used in this wider sense.

In Dutch, the Dutch word "Hollands" is the adjectival form for "Holland". The Dutch word "Hollands" is also colloquially and occasionally used by some Dutch people in the sense of "Nederlands" (Dutch), but then often with the intention of contrasting with other types of Dutch people or language, for example Limburgish, the Belgian form of the Dutch language ("Flemish"), or even any southern variety of Dutch within the Netherlands itself.

Leopard ,i knew  that much from a socio-political- geographic sense - that's why i said for Football purposes

BBC and ITV used to refer to Netherlands national team as  Holland


2000 Euro's  i know  Nederlands was used