a good first half, and then we take off sneijder at ht, got hit by two goals on the counter, and never looked like playing in the second half until maybe the last 10 minutes. and the worst thing is that despite the 2-1 loss to belarus, we are still the top seed for euro, so we lost for nothing.

so another group of death beckons. we can get drawn into a group comprising us, germany/spain/portugal, italy/czech and france.

but first, please drop de zeeuw once and for all. and bouma is 75 percent out of the squad. van bronckhorst shouldn't be the captain; neither should he start. and it is best that we play either ooijer or mathijsen, not both. koevermans might have sent us to austria/switzerland with that goal against lux, but i think it's either him or kuijt. things to think about for van basten, but the lack of goals is worrying.

and according to belarus, hleb could be out for 2 weeks. oh thanks. after van persie injured himself for holland, i am always worried when it is international week.

and the unthinkable actually happened. croatia 3 england 2. no england in switzerland and austria. they can blame arsenal for all they want, but the fact is that when all you need is to avoid defeat at home, and you can't even do it, what's the point of talking so much about the possibility of israel throwing the russia game, yet to see them do you a big favour by winning 2-1, and thus put you in control of your own destiny, when all you could do was be outclassed by croatia? croatia were the better team by far. true, they conceded two goals, but it seems that they always concede alot of goals. but they had much more chances to easily kill of england. a dangerous counter-attacking team that can keep possession decently, which was what they did in the last 5 minutes of normal time.

and ferguson, for all his talk about local talents, wants to buy veloso. how ironic is that, especially when he already has carrick and hargreaves.

what a hypocrite.