Today it's the big one – Holland against The Netherlands

Written by Dave Allan Sunday, 11 July 2010 17:32

England World Cup Blog

So another World Cup is over. Thanks to all the contributors, the commenters, the web designer, the web developer, the marketing bloke and, of course, to all the readers - 150,000 of you since we started in May.

I'm off out shortly to watch the match in an Irish Pub in Berlin and have had a bet on Holland to win in 90 minutes at 3/1.

Here a clipping I found in the Independent - some World Cup funnies to leave you with. Until 2014 then;)

'Sven Goran Eriksson tinkers with the Ivories'

Peter Drury as Eriksson made a substitution

'The England players didn't like him (Eriksson). He started to pull their birds'

Eamon Dunphy

'You can literally see what the players are thinking'

Ally McCoist

'If England do get through it looks like they will play Germany or Siberia'

Mike Parry on TalkSport

'When Diaby opens his legs he's quite a handful'

Craig Burley

'There's a real lack of inexperience in the South African team'

Steve McManaman

'Vidic got raped by – sorry, got taken apart by – Torres in that one game at Old Trafford'

Graeme Souness

'If Gerrard plays on the left we may as well pack up and go home'

Lee Dixon after "sources" assured him (incorrectly) England's captain would play in the centre

'The Eyeties don't have it'

Paul Ince, formerly of Internazionale, assesses Italy

'Too much too late'

Gareth Southgate after late Italian pressure failed against Slovakia.

'And so we say au revoir to Italy'

David Pleat

'One-nil is never a lead'

Efan Ekoku

'He hasn't had a kick, except for two headers'

Robbie Savage

'I wish somebody would elbow someone. It'd give us something to talk about'

Mick McCarthy on Brazil v Portugal, which ended 0-0

'Cometh the man, cometh the hour, as they say'

Chris Coleman

'It was a toughicult match for Upson to come into'

Alan Shearer

'It could be a problem for Germany if Schwarzsteiner isn't fit'

Denis Irwin on Germany's Bastian Schweinsteiger

'The South Koreans threw the kitchen sink at them, or whatever the Korean equivalent of the kitchen sink is'

Adrian Chiles

'He is not the flavour of a lot of people's eye'

Craig Burley on Franck Ribéry

'You cannot have Guatemalan referees at a World Cup. Name me a club in Guatemala'

Robbie Savage again

'Ghana would love a goal to put the icing on the cake they already seem to be eating'

Martin Tyler

'The altitude must have dropped or something'

Ronnie Whelan after Europe saw off the South American challenge

'This match is like reading a book. You know what's going to happen'

Edgar Davids casts a fashionably bespectacled eye over Denmark against Holland

'Today it's the big one – Holland against The Netherlands'

Paddy McKenna, RTE 2fm presenter

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