It’s still a beautiful game……..Holland 3 Italy 0

Just when all the talk in football is of corruption, too many foreign players, and overpaid nancy boys you get a glimpse of something quite special.
Something that restores your faith in the game.

That something tonight is being displayed by Italy and Holland. The dutch will take the applause and rightly so. Their movement and passing has been pure football that I haven’t seen since it was Mr Van Basten himself splaying it around the pitch.
Don’t think Italy have been a walk over. The first dutch goal was yards offside, the second came on a break just 17 seconds after they cleared the ball off their own goal line and the third came 20 seconds or so after Van Der Sar made a simply stunning save down the other end.
Italy contributed to a wonderful game tonight and I can still see them going through to the next round, but I’d be a fool to not think the Dutch now must be favourites.

Everything they did oozed class tonight.
Thank you Italy, thank you Holland for finally announcing there is a major tournament going on and finally restoring football to it’s plinth labelled “The beautiful game”

It’s still a beautiful game……..Holland 3 Italy 0

Just when all the talk in football is of corruption, too many foreign players, and overpaid nancy boys you get a glimpse of something quite special.
Something that restores your faith in the game.

That something tonight is being displayed by Italy and Holland. The dutch will take the applause and rightly so. Their movement and passing has been pure football that I haven’t seen since it was Mr Van Basten himself splaying it around the pitch.
Don’t think Italy have been a walk over. The first dutch goal was yards offside, the second came on a break just 17 seconds after they cleared the ball off their own goal line and the third came 20 seconds or so after Van Der Sar made a simply stunning save down the other end.
Italy contributed to a wonderful game tonight and I can still see them going through to the next round, but I’d be a fool to not think the Dutch now must be favourites.

Everything they did oozed class tonight.
Thank you Italy, thank you Holland for finally announcing there is a major tournament going on and finally restoring football to it’s plinth labelled “The beautiful game”