Hope to catch a bit of this game if I'm not too caught up with the FA cup.
Most particularly to catch up with our old manager Bert van Marwijk.
roud: If there's a coach Sahin and the other Dortmund youngsters can learn from then it's him with his emphasis during trainings on players positional sense. If there's a thing the Dutch have a patent on in football, then it's this. This is what made AZ so strong last season despite having mainly journeymen in their team and idem ditto with Feyenoord when Bert van Marwijk was in charge of them. The ability of the players to find each other on the pitch without having to look. You could notice last season when that idiot Gullit was in charge how abysmal his trainings must have been as every game it looked like the players played with each for the first time, not to forget Gullit's idiotic buys like Cory Gibbs, Bruno Basto, Pascal Boschaart, Alexander Östlund etc etc.
I'll also be particularly interested to see how Ebi Smolarek is doing. Even though Gullit is an idiot for letting him go for next to nothing, no one would have ever dreamed of him scoring so many goals in the Bundesliga. Incredible how he's doing. Testimony of how clueless Gullit is by getting rid of a born and bred Feyenoorder & Rotterdammer like Smolarek by getting moneygrabbers who prefer to play for our reserves than to find a new club like Basto or Magrao.
All in all the best of luck to Bert van Marwijk who's doing a cracking job at Dortmund with absolutely no resources. If Gullit was there, he'd no doubt have started moaning about not being able to sign any players. Bert hasn't and has stuck to the task, blending in youth while looking for real bargains like Smolarek, Amoah, Buckley and another one to come, Steven Pienaar on a bosman in the summer.
