10+ minutes highlights of the 1974 World Cup match between Netherlands and Brazil.
Clockwork Orange showing off "total football" by Johan Cruyff, Rob Rensenbrink, Ruud Krol, and
Arie Haan. Goals by Johan Neeskens and Cruyff overcome a scrappy Brazilian team that resorted to
physical intimidation.
This week's Video Of The Week comes courtesy of RSC Anderlecht's YouTube page, and is the
complete 1976 European Cup Winners Cup Final between Anderlecht and West Ham United. West Ham's
achievement in reaching a European trophy final in a season during which they finished in
eighteenth place can't be understated, but they met their match in an Anderlecht team that
contained, amongst others, François Van Der Elst (who went on to play for West Ham between 1981
and 1983) and the Dutch pairing of Arie Haan and Rob Rensenbrink.
The Netherlands have twice made the World Cup final. Twice in the same decade in fact. And
they've had some sublime moments, like Dennis Bergkamp's goal vs Argentina in 1998, and everything
Johan Cruyff did in 1974. But they've not always been regular qualifiers (what happened in the '80s
Oranje fans?