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True, because we are forced to learn it at school since we are a small nation haha. When you are about 9 years old you start with the basics. For instance, I've had 2 years of English classes at primary school, then 6 years at high school (12-18 y.o.). Then you encounter these classes at university again and so on. To a lesser extent you are subjected to (in this order of occurrence) German, French, Spanish, Arabic and Russian classes. Oh, and besides movies for kids we don't dub anything, just subtitles. Also, kids play a lot of videogames with English content. I could already speak decent English before my first English classes lol. Must say it is rather shocking compared to e.g. France, where most people are either s h i t e at speaking English or just refuse to do so.

I knew we would lose but we got completely hammered. We really miss van Beek at the back, Dammers is just horrible. We lost to VVV due to him and know he was responsible for 2 goals as well. Nonetheless the difference was quite shocking... Ah well, deserved win for you guys and hope you enjoyed the game!

I am really afraid you will hammer us lol. Defense isn't looking good, clinical finisher is still missing... Anyway, let's just make it a great match!

Put some guys on the home stand to sweep up the lot, that is what we often do. Here at Vitesse for instance: The best thing about the Vitesse away stand is that you can demolish it if you want. Vitesse's arch enemy NEC demonstrated this a few years ago: But nah, I think fans in England can get along much better than here. Maybe not with their rivals, but with the rest it is no problem. We still have some catching up to do here.

The game against Groningen was very good I must say. I also expect us (Feyenoord) to lose this weekend. We are really lacking defenders (and our best, van Beek, is out for 2 months..) and a clinical finisher. Although pre-season friendlies do not say everything, we lost 1-2 to VVV this weekend, who do not even play in the Eredivisie. It is a bit like Arsenal or Liverpool losing to a position 5-8 championship club like Wolverhampton or so. Anyway, we will try to create a good atmosphere

Aaaaah, BVLS, yes. That is a Dutch one as well I believe. That stream copies this one (the ''original''): http://www.bvls2013.com/stream1.html so you can use this as well Groningen has their strongest line-up on the field btw in the first half.

FFS, they shut down all of our Fox Sports streams such as Janlul.com. Last week the streamers posted a message stating that they will stop streaming as a result of ''high pressure that was applied on us''. Well luckily I was planning to sign up for a legit Fox Sports sub since my provider gave me a good discount offer which also includes BPL, yay. This thing (channel 11) http://cricfree.sx/watch/live/groningen-vs-southampton-live-streaming might be up soon, but I am not sure. I will check at some Groningen fans if they have some Dutch Fox Sports stream..

Good choice to play against Groningen. Groningen is last year's cup winner and I believe they defeated Vitesse in the quarter finals. Don't think they are better than either Vitesse or Feyenoord, but they always compete for place 5-9 here in the league. One of their best players (Chery) is going to QPR, so he will be missed. Don't know their line-up but Mahi is a creative winger, Antonia has a lot of pace, De Leeuw is a great finisher especially with his head dispite his size and Rusnak is a great AM. Nonetheless I expect a 2-0 Saints win or so. I will try to find some Dutch streams, I have some usual suspects and they might broadcast. Am I allowed to post those on here?

It is easy. From either Amsterdam Central or Schiphol Airport take an intercity train to Nijmegen, departing each 30 min. These will always stop at Arnhem. Takes about one hour without any transfers.

Will be an interesting game! Vitesse was off to a slow start last season, but then started playing better and better. Their second half of the season was very impressive, if they had things organized earlier they would have made it to the 2nd place I think. Completely wrecked us (Feyenoord) at home (1-4 loss) and they also destroyed Ajax (0-4 loss) in the Cup. Their style of play is composed of direct, short passing and low through balls. Their position play and passing might even be better than that of PSV. But, here is the bright side: their midfield is gone. We (Feyenoord) took Vejinovic from them and PSV took Pröpper from them. These were two of their best players and the core of the team. I think you are able to beat them, but do not take them lightly.

Well I am a Feyenoord fan and besides the result, the game wasn't that good at all. I think Sevilla could have easily stomped us but were just not that willing to do so. You can see that the moments they apply pressure problems start to occur. If this was their EL final, they would have won no doubt. Last season was ****e. Fred Rutten (last season's manager, luckily gone now) is known to apply unbalanced training, that is why your medical of Clasie revealed minor issues. At the last, say, 10 games of the season the players were not 100% fit as a result of this. That is why we just collapsed. Clasie had some good games, but in the last Koeman season he was better. I do blame this on the manager and team in general. One of his better games last season was against Ajax away as far as I recall. Will be awkward to see him on your side next week.

"Feyenoord and Southampton have reached an agreement about Clasie, now he has to reach a personal agreement. Finalized ageeement expectes shortly" Seems a done deal now in the Dutch media what I am reading. VI is stating that more info regarding this transfer will follow shortly

By the way, in our games against PSV he always neutralized Wijnaldum who moves for 20 million euro's to the Mags. Also, I consider Clasie to be better than Blind. Bit of a bargain indeed

Yes, that is correct. We are certain he turned down Russia, I believe Zenit. He said his family is very important to him and he wants to go somewhere they would be happy too, which apparantly is in the UK at you guys.

Sad to see him go, but he is ready for the next step. Hope he does well for you guys! But I am confident he will, although some adjustment to BPL is of course required. Will be a bit of an awkward encounter in our preseason match to see him at your side haha. But I guess the Saints - Feyenoord connection has gotten stronger since last year. Traditionally we have a 'partnership' in the BPL with Sunderland btw