Van Hanegem a reminder of better days

As 2007 comes to an end it is a tough job to do a retrospective on Dutch football and not tumble into a story of doom and gloom.

Apart from victory in the European Championships for the U-21's there are few positive comments to be made.

As the national team stumbled into a 'Group of Death' at Euro 2008, club football returned to the level of the early eighties when only one or two teams would survive the early rounds of European football. 

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