Roel Cramer

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[Roel Cramer @cramer_raa]

My latest piece for @thesefootytimes about Johnny Reps football years in France: The Dutch master who lit up French Football in the late 70s and early 80s.

[These Football Times @thesefootytimes]

Johnny Rep: the Dutch master who lit up French football | By @cramer_raa. #FormationASSE #Bastia #Ligue1 https://t.co/lURvD0pyFw

[David Zico @futebol__brazil]

Francisco das Chagas Marinho

[Roel Cramer @cramer_raa]

@Cultuurfilosoof Mooi zeg

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

Love the ending so much I put the subtitles on it myself. Britishness 🇬🇧 personified 😊👏👏

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

Mephisto, by Joaquín Espalter y Rull, 1872, 📸 by Dan Mullan

[Roy Nemer @RoyNemer]

On this day in 1993, Argentina defeated Denmark to win the Artemio Franchi Cup. It was a match between the 1991 Copa America winners and the 1992 UEFA Euro winners. The match would end 1-1 with Argentina winning 5-4 on penalty kicks. Diego Maradona, Gabriel Batistuta on the team.

[📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola @BomboneraTears]

OTD 1993: Argentina won the Copa América

Hosted in Ecuador, Gabriel Batistuta's brace (see post below) won the final against Mexico 2-1 for la albiceleste!

28 years of trophy draught followed before the 2021 Copa América win. The 2022 World Cup and 2024 Copa América followed!

[SCOUTED @scoutedftbl]

Fernando Redondo and Diego Simeone at the 1993 Copa América. Argentina's last triumph.

[#Holland74 / @Netherlands1974 🇳🇱 @Netherlands1974]

In the legendary 1st minute of the #WorldCup74 Final #WestGermany vs #Netherlands, #JohanCruyff made his first dribble, from center line into the box.
And the rest is history.
Watch it here with unique camera angles.
#Holland74 #Oranje #Fifaworldcup #FWC #worldcup #football

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

@FOXSports @FOXSoccer At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1890

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

🎙️ This is Argentine TV commentator Pablo Giralt's reaction to Lionel Messi's equaliser. Passion 💯

🤣 Wait for Carlos Tevez and Sergio Agüero in the background.

[Footy Humour @FootyHumour]

It’s my favourite World Cup video. I’ve watched it 100 times and somehow every single time, it still gets a little smile out of me.

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

The Count of Monte Cristo has been voted the most American hero in French literature.
(In a poll I conducted:)

1. Edmond Dantès is destroyed by the establishment not because he did anything wrong – but because he was about to succeed. Three mediocre men find it convenient that he disappears. This is not villainy. It is the European system operating as designed.

2. He does not petition for justice. He does not appeal to institutions. He builds himself — from nothing, in a prison cell — into something the system has no category for. The Château d’If is his Stanford, his Wall Street, and his boot camp, all at once.

3. The fortune is not inherited. It is found, claimed, and deployed. He has no bloodline the establishment must respect. So he buys his way in, masters their codes faster than they learned them, and uses their own rules as weapons. This is the American founding myth in a French waistcoat.

4. The revenge is not hot. It is architectural. Years of patience, precision, and methodical excellence – each enemy given exactly enough rope. He does not rage against the system. He becomes the consequence.

5. Every other hero of French literature is tragic, compromised, or absorbed. Dantès alone wins completely, on his own terms, without surrendering who he is. The European novel teaches you why the system always wins. Monte Cristo is the exception – which is why it feels American.

6. “Wait and hope” — his closing words — are not passive. They are the most aggressive possible stance: the decision to outlast, outthink, and outlive the corrupt establishment that thought it had finished you.

7. America was built by people who had been finished by someone else’s establishment and who decided to build anew from scratch. They recognized the Count immediately. The French invented him. The Americans understood him.

[MOFBA • Advertising History in China @MOFBACN]

1948 snapshot by Carl Mydans of the sailor's bar street in Qingdao, China with a prominent advertising sign for the Red Rose Bar.

[OptaJohan @OptaJohan]

5 - Derrick Luckassen and Brian Brobbey are the fifth pair of brothers to make an appearance at the FIFA World Cup 2026, with six of those ten players born in the Netherlands.

Broer.

[ElBuni @therealbuni]

Fijate como la mina lleva una sola bebida para Edward norton y lo pasa de largo a Brad Pitt

Indicios sutiles de que siempre fue parte de su imaginación 🚬🚬

[Carter @essediafoilouco]

Como explicar para os jovens de hoje que um desses caras da foto - assistindo a um jogo dos EUA - nem existe?

[Susan Abel @susylicious2023]

Why is zlatan So funny.

[honest ivan.exe 🇨🇱 @duasmicstand]

40 years ago. Arguably the best performance ever. The man of the 1000 answers.

[The Extreme Football Enthusiast @ExtremeFootbal4]

Cruyff and Van Gaal in their playing days.

[Roel Cramer @cramer_raa]

@DutchKafir Thanks, educatief handig dit