Netherlands

Netherlands 2 Chile 0Caught between the knowledge that both teams were already qualified and the risk that Brazil could lie in wait for the loser the (...)

When the World Cup draw was made back in December, Group B was one of the candidates for the dreaded ‘group of death’ tag. But rather than finding (...)

In their great years, Spain made winning look easy. It was never easy. Their victories were flowed from an unprecedented intensity and control that in(...)

Netherlands 3 Australia 2Louis van Gaal had complained beforehand about his view from the dugout but for much of this extraordinary game the Dutch man(...)

Spain’s sensational 5-1 thrashing by the Netherlands was only a ‘partial defeat’, a relaxed-looking coach Vicente Del Bosque told reporters on Saturd(...)

Brazil’s players trained on Friday morning so the squad could get lunch out of the way early and sit down to watch Mexico play Cameroon, their two rem(...)

The Spanish press mourned their stunning loss to the Netherlands in their World Cup opener last night with words such as “humiliation” and “nightmare”(...)

Day Two and Tony O’Donoghue and Kenny Cunningham were on the RTÉ couch, a particularly big one too for just the pair of them, the distance between (...)

Vicente del Bosque, to be fair, could never have been accused of getting carried away when he came to meet the press after one title then another was (...)

Netherlands 5 Spain 1 Back when the draw for the finals of Euro 2012 was still pending and there was still the prospect of a softer ride, Keith(...)