2014 FIFA World Cup

[Cymbols]

Alvaro Saborio is out the World Cup for Costa Rica due to a broken foot. Tough job just got even tougher for them.

[Colly]

Are the comments fictional? They seem slightly less ethnically diverse than usual...

[EddieG]

The final 23 of the Dutch squad.

Goalkeepers: Jasper Cillessen (Ajax), Tim Krul (Newcaste United), Michel Vorm (Swansea City).

Defenders: Patrick van Aanholt (Vitesse), Daley Blind (Ajax), Daryl Janmaat (Feyenoord), Terence Kongolo (Feyenoord), Bruno Martins Indi (Feyenoord), Joël Veltman (Ajax), Paul Verhaegh (FC Augsburg), Ron Vlaar (Aston Villa), Stefan De Vrij (Feyenoord).

Midfielders: Jordy Clasie (Feyenoord), Leroy Fer (Norwich City, Eng), Jonathan De Guzman (Swansea City), Nigel de Jong (AC Milan), Wesley Sneijder (Galatasaray), Georginio Wijnaldum (PSV).

Attackers: Memphis Depay (PSV), Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (Schalke 04), Dirk Kuijt (Fenerbahçe), Jeremain Lens (Dinamo Kiev), Robin van Persie (Manchester United), Arjen Robben (Bayern München).

[TCO]

That squad looks very, very average. Hopefully Memphis Depay gets to play, eager to see him on the big stage.

[METALMAN]

That's a team of funking nobodies. I know more players in the Scotland squad.

[Rafael]

Chile will beat them in my opinion.

[Colly]

Am I going mad or are there 24 players in that final 23?

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

I count 24 too.

[Colly]

Ruddy cheats.

[Baddar]

They'll just have to cut the last man on the list.

Sorry Arjen!

[Cymbols]

Navas and Negredo have been left out of the final 23 for Spain, but Fernando Torres is in.

[stokeriño]

Third-highest Spain goalscorer of all time 'n' all that.

[EddieG]

Diego Costa in as well.

[Thrilla]

Navas and Negredo have been left out of the final 23 for Spain, but Fernando Torres is in.

It is understandable, Torres is in great form...

Yes, I'm aware this goes against me defending him a little while back >_>

[EddieG]

Feyenoord delivering more players to the Dutch team with 5, and 6 of the players being former Feyenoord players.

[Colly]

Van Aanholt is the interloper, he's not in the squad.

[stokeriño]

I can only presume, given that it was a friendly and he'd just scored a penalty a minute earlier, Nando must have been thinking "eh, why not?".

...Only to realise a moment later "Oh yeah, that's why".

Shame for PVA though.

[METALMAN]

Feyenoord delivering more players to the Dutch team with 5, and 6 of the players being former Feyenoord players.

If anything could be used as an indicator that these are lean times for the Dutch, this would be it.

[EddieG]

Yup, last time that happened was.. oh, 1974 (after 3 consecutive European Cup wins for Ajax) when oh, we reached the final.

[stokeriño]

Tenuous logic. If the best England had to offer were the likes of West Ham's Nolan/Jarvis/Downing/Noble/Morrison/etc., citing the quality of Moore and Hurst in 1966 would hardly be a justification.