World Cup 2014

thought he'd hit the woodwork

Krul, man, what a prick

class pen

jasper thinking he would've saved a couple of these

oh dirk i love you

Never in Kuyt

krul has gone the right way every time right?

Come on Krul you prick!

yup

yupppppppp

Ah well

krul's early 90s teen movie bully vibe wins out :'(

Brilliant match

hahaha the van gaal legend grows

aaaawwww poor plucky cr

well done oranje ilxors

All the cruel puns

aw, I'm gutted after all. Hate Holland now

congrats Dutch peeps and joyless cynics everywhere

Van Gaal treating this like an art project. Have to play 433? Nah. Cant win a shootout? Nah.

fkn dutch cunts ughhhhhh

boo

http://ocantinhoda.borboletaazul.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/hup-holland-hup.jpg

krul is the biff tannen of football

KRUIUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLLL

Dutch were the better team overall tbf

Not terribly important, but...

iirc the leicester v palace 96 play-off final martin o'neill brought on zeljko kalac for pens

steve claridge then scored seconds before ft and palace said the substitution put them off

...I vaguely remember nipping into a Camden pub on a sunny afternoon to catch the end of a Palace play-off match in the mid-to-late 90s and one of their players scored a wonder goal in the last minute to get them promoted. Was that the next season?

Can't see how that was going to backfire on van Gaal tbh, unless Krul dives over five tricklers.

When was the last time they actually won a shootout? Must have been a while

NBS - that was the David Hopkin game, which I think might actually have been... against Leicester? Leicester did lose a lot of playoffs back in the day.

Enjoyed this match up until the very end when they tacked on the "it was only a kooky dream" ending.

According to BBC they won their last one (against Sweden in 2004), but lost the other four (xxp)

Main thing w/Holland is they scored all of them against a good keeper.

https://vine.co/v/MUETeiMOzgB

My priority for this WC was van Gaal being tied up as long as possible so, uh, tournament delivers I guess.

IK - you mean FIFA tournament delivers

Love Van Gaal and getting all my love out of the way i preparation for a season of loathing

Nope, turns out the Hopkin goal was against Sheffield United in 1997.

I do, yes. Thank you Sepp.

Ooh, "Keine Melodie" on the highlights! Nifty.

lol, Argentina suddenly clear favourites for the WC

Germany.

Van Gaal you magnificent bastard.

Nope, turns out the Hopkin goal was against Sheffield United in 1997.

The name Hopkin means nothing to me, but 97 sounds right because I'm pretty sure the whole Lombardo (and fat Brolin thing?) was in 98.

Congratulations LBI, hope you win it now

Suarez emerging unscathed was my other priority fwiw

Thanks NBS!!

Was v sceptical abt Van Gaal on forehand, but he's got great tricks up his sleeve. Plus, he's made it so that - for the first time ever? - there is not one player having problems with being benched, there's no mutiny. Rare for us.

Krul was in the right corner with all five penalties btw. And for the Dutch to score all of them is bizarre.

The story is almost too good to be true. First killing off the national penalty trauma. Now Argentina, our 78 trauma. And then Germany? Bring it on!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjgYc71QMtY

This one?

OK, before watching that clip, I can say the goal I remember was from right to left as the cameras filmed it, maybe from outside the box, that's all I can be sure about - I think the guy was near side rather than far side...

And here's Cladge:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6764iSnVJPQ

And finally, just because I know that, as if by magic, he will appear:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHFkFqVcFGo