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I don't remember it exactly, it is the year they won 18 games in a row, and then they cancelled the superbowl, that is how I remember it.

They did as well as I could have expected, the game was ugly but I did not expect them to win the Superbowl. The year the superbowl was cancelled or when they lost to the jets or the year they lost to the colts when their whole secondary was injured were so much worse. They could have won the...

Club Brugge will have some stinkers away in the CL, but that is an amazing result, and it was deserved. They have a good mix of veterans and youngsters. Noah Lang and Charles De Ketelaere are their young stars to keep an eye on.

Very disappointed obviously, but not a heartbreak. Italy played well, and they play a beautiful game, when they are up right. A bit of luck was missing for Belgium, but that is why you play the game. It shows how hard it is to win a major tournament, even with a golden generation, the...

Enjoying every minute of it, anderlecht is the Belgian MFY. This is like what would happen if the MFY were bought by a Bostonian, bring back Jeter as player/coach and start the season 2-15, after a pretty bad season last year. It is just glorious.

Modric over Hazard is a joke. Croatia did not win a single regulation game after the group stage.

A very mature game from the Belgians, they did not play as well as against Costa Rica, and KDB was off his game, but they got the result they needed. Panama did a good job defending Hazard and had some good chances. But it seemed the Belgians were confident they would win by playing their game...

Great write up. Some comments, I am Flemish, but like most other Flemish we don't really dislike the Walloons, I met more Walloons in the USA than in my first 22 years growing up in Belgium. During the WC we are all Belgian, the team is a great mix of Belgians from all regions. My best friend...

I never liked Klinsmann, he is a snake oil salesman, but I was impressed with the team in the last world cup. The US is in a difficult spot, the talent has improved to where the team talent is better than any team but Mexico in concacaf, but not to a point where there are more than a few...

A heartbreaking loss, but not a shocker as the defense was probably the worst in the tournament. There was no communication between them. In 2 years, Denaeyer and Lukaku could be a top notch half of the defense. They are really talented players, and incredibly young. They probably would have...

The last 20 minutes there were several clear fouls which were no whistled at all. That hurts the team behind most of all. The yellow cards were all deserved as they stopped an attack from developing. The foul on Lukaku outside of the box was a bad miss by the ref. That is a second yellow. The...

I wish I could blame Wilmots. Not bringing Lombaerts was probably his worst mistake.

I am heartbroken. This is 2003 all over for me. The injuries on defense did them in. Breaking in 2 really young defenders did not work. Losing Kompany, Vertongen, Vermaelen and Lombaerts did them in. It is not as much the drop in ability but lack of experience working together. Denaeyer, Lukaku...

Two years ago Courtois was seen as the second best in the world and Buffon 4th. Last year Buffon was seen as the second best and Courtois as 4th. Courtois had a bad year behind a geriatric defense at Chelsea. I think an argument can be made either way. If Buffon is Ortiz then Courtois is Mookie

Chelsea's goalie is better than Buffon, but the rest of your point stands.

I like the shirts a lot. They are a throwback to the cycling team from the 50s and 60s which dominated cycling. Hazard was spectacular, he has been talking about the net game forever. To play at Lille again is very special. I am worried it might be too special. I don't know what the team could...

It has been a long time since I lived in Belgium. But I grew up there, and speak the languages and go back often. Yes Belgium has a long way to go integrating its' minorities. Brussels has many issues and is really a strange place. Wilmots is the authoritarian, if anything it might be his...

I posted it in the gamethread, but I am not aware of any region based rifts in the team. There are some in the country who would want to, but that is something different. The animosity between Flanders and the Walloons is similar as that between Texas and California in my view. We are not...

I have not read abything in the Belgian press about animosity between the different players on the team. But the Belgian press I read is not very gossipy. There is animosity which ebbs and wanes in the population but I don't see it affect the team. If anything, the group seems to like each other...

Vertonghen and Alderweireld are playing centrally tomorrow. Injuries have been tough on defense, albeit that except for Kompany they all have been mostly in depth. Their best defenders are all CB, so even without injuries players have to be out of position. On the other hand are all best...