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A Holland

Number of games in database: 1
Years covered: 1949


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1. A Holland vs C W Warburton 0-1181949corrC44 King's Pawn Game

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Jul-10-07  sneaky pete: Martinus Nijhoff: Holland

Boven mijn hoofd hebt gij uw lucht gebreid:
Een hemel, rijk van zon en wijd van wind -
Terwijl ik juichend door de ruimten schrijd,
Of aan uw borst lig als een drinkend kind.

Rood van verlangen, bonzende van vragen,
Ging weer een stuwen door mijn bloed, als breede
Dorpen aan uwe glanzende einders lagen,
En slooten weiden in figuren sneden.

Het avondlicht zinkt door de vensters binnen.
De bruine meubels denken aan elkaar,
Een stervend woord wil overal beginnen -

't Eenvoudig leven Gods is diep en klaar:
Een man in blauwen kiel en een vrouw in een
Geruiten rok en witten boezelaar.

Jul-12-14  whiteshark: Oh! my! goat!

Brazil is down <0-2> after only 16 minutes against Dutchland.

Jul-12-14  john barleycorn: Oh dear. the dutch are now scoring goals in the first half? Someone should have told them earlier. It is not against the rules. Van Gaal - you are fired.
Jul-12-14
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  perfidious: Al Holland, the well-travelled lefty who was embroiled in the Pittsburgh drug trials?
Jul-12-14  john barleycorn: <perfidious> did he open any coffeeshops in Pittsburgh?
Jul-12-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: <john b> Sure did-they also sold Coca Cola, made as in days of old, in the back room.
Jul-13-14  sneaky pete: Instead of making irreverent jokes, it's time for some serious words on this page.

Nijhoff's poem is of course about Van Gaal's Holland. In Kim's workers paradise the ideology is <juche>, in Van Gaal's 5-3-2 paradise it's <juichen> : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYuU...

See line 3: "While I stride <juichend> through the spaces".

Line 1: "Above my head you have kniitted your sky" refers to the communication satellites that enable us to see a a football game from Brazil live.

The blood reference in lines 5/6 commemorates the bleeding martyr Dirk Kuijt.

Line 10 "The brown furniture thinks of each other" is a bit mysterious. It may have to do with the excellent passing: Van Persie to Robben in the second minute, and Robben to Janmaat to Wijnaldum at the end of the game.

Line 13/14: "a man in a blue shirt" refers to the blue away shirts of the Dutch players, and "a woman in a checkered skirt and a white apron" is clearly his wife, Truus van Gaal.

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