Edwin van der Sar won the Premier League with Manchester United, and made a nice little speech/got many ovations from the Old Trafford faithful: have a look at all the lovely pics on Getty!

Wesley Sneijder is tweeting away, hoping to be fit for one last game this season and then see his wife, Yolanthe (who apparently isn't living in Italy with him ( Read more... )

The Guardian takes a look at Mark van Bommel's importance for the Dutch, has lots of juicy Dutch titbits in their World Cup blog from yesterday, and debates whether it wouldn't be better for football for the Dutch to win the final, because Spanish football has become boring. (My favorite bit is when they describe Mark as 'Machiavellian'. That's ( Read more... )

Yet more spammy links to celebrate the beginning of the holidays:

1. ( Spot Raf at the Real Xmas dinner! No Ruud, unfortunately... )