Red the Bear
Something less generic
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I love how you snuck kuyt in thereOur 2010 team is a bit underrated really. The front half of our team was absolutely world class with peak Robben, Van Persie, Sneijder and Kuyt (I know I know). Van Bommel and Nigel de Jong were a perfect fit playing behind Sneijder and Stekelenburg somehow turned into Van der Sar that summer. It was only our centre backs that were suspect, though Matthijssen and Heitinga where by no means terrible. Especially Robben was completely unplayable for almost his entire international career and elevated us to a higher level.
It's the 2014 team that had no business nearly making the final with Bruno Martins Indi, Ron Vlaar, Jonathan de Guzman and Daryl Janmaat in the starting eleven.
What that team did was admirable, and honestly the whole controversy with cryuff calling them anti football and Spain deserving of the win was too harsh and uncalled for me, hell that team came closer to winning it all than cruyff's team ever did.
You lot had an incredible run in those two tournaments almost making two finals in a row is quite admirable.