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The not winning bit is a lot of rubbish, Cruyff has done so many interviews in recent years before he passed away, regarding the Ajax and Dutch national teams he played in, That team in the late 60's and 70s of Ajax and Netherlands were very unique and only wanted to win with the right football, which comes with arrogance as they had achieved so much. In the 2 finals of the 74 and 78, they were both unlucky as they were playing against the host nations but in 74 the moment of facing their enemies as Cruyff said that they all wanted to go out and humiliate the Germans but it never happened, Germany held on as the moment was too much as the players were to fired up which backfired for the Dutch. Johan recently said that when he looked back on the 1974 team, they might not of won the World Cup but that team was the real winners as it become a huge part of footballing history which changed the game. Netherlands itself have always had this arrogance in everything they do, going back a long way to the golden ages, its like they have this thing that their systems are the best so they stick with them, it is arrogant but its just part of the culture. The new Dutch team is failing because they are not playing to a system with the players they have at the moment, also the mixed cultures in the team has caused some major problems.

I agree 100%. Lovren's I think had a (marginally) better season than Matip... but he's still had some HUGE blunders that have been costly. Matip's fitness problems are pretty poor too, and I think while he had a good start to his Liverpool career each time he comes back from a spell out on the physio table... he's a bit worse each time. Maybe that's a match fitness issue or a confidence issue - but it is something I've noticed. I'd like Van Dijk to be paired with another Dutchman... Stefan de Vrij from Lazio.

yeah. he's the reason why i got into Madrid. Back in my elementary days, 1988 something, my cousin introduced me to football. A filipino who loves football is unique at that time haha. my cousin had a spaniard friend,( my cousin is a vet and the dog of that spaniard is one his patients ) he gave me two books, one about general history of football. there i learned about dennis law, beckenbauer, bobby moore and more. The other book was about madrid and it featured puskas. it was full of pictures of him and the thing that fascinated me most is his hair style coz we had the same hair style and him playing football without messing up his hairdo piqued my interest in him. my cousin and that spaniard friend of his then told me about the history of madrid and their great players and of course puskas ...... the photo that got stuck in my head is something like this ... but he was wearing the white of madrid with his hairdo all set and a facking brass band in the back ground. like a mafia boss .......

We really could do with a new partner for Van Dijk in the summer. Neither Matip or Lovren are good enough. Both unreliable fitness wise too.

Hope that doesn't come to fruition. F1 needs to be a different sport to the feeder series where entertainment is more important than fair competition. Going down the route of reverse grids and qualifying races reduces the value of the Grand Prix and takes away from Formula 1 as a sport. I have to say it's bothered me for years how much F1 management have started to try and pander to the casual fan to get viewership up with stuff like DRS. There needs to be some valuation of tradition and why F1 always had a big enough following in the first place from the people who enjoyed it for the pure motorsport it was and the organic drama it produced between the world's best racing drivers. However I'm resigned that the sport will move away from naturally occurring drama towards gimmicky manufactured drama with stuff like double points at the last race, reverse grids etc. to pull people with no attention span in from the smart phone generation.

Yea it should be read by everyone who loves football, as he has done more for football then anyone else, he transformed the game.