In preparation for the World Cup final between the Netherlands and Spain all Dutch newspapers are preparing “Orange attachments”. From one or two extra pages, an orange-colored front page to complete extra magazines, every single newsroom is spending long hours in the preparation for their publications before and after next sunday’s World Cup final.

Popular newspaper De Telegraaf will publish an extra magazine on saturday. On top of that, the paper will print extra issues in countries like Spain, Italy and France. Editor-in-Chief Sjuul Paradijs says that “the need for information is spectacular. We have to help the Dutch people who are on a vacation outside the Netherlands”, he told press agency ANP.

Free newspaper Metro, which normally doesn’t appear in the weekends, will publish an extra edition on saturday, which will be distributed in public transport. Competitor Sp!ts intends to come with “a spectacular deal” on monday. Editor-in-chief Willem Schouten – who just returned from South Africa where he watched the semifinals – says that the emphasis will be on “all the joy and sadness around the ‘national experience’ of football.”

One big exception is found at the newsroom of the religiously based Reformatorisch Dagblad. This small national paper won’t publish a single word on the Soccer World Cup, or on any professional sport activity.  RD-readers won’t even find the final results in their newspaper. Antoon Stam, secretary of the editorial board, argues that right at the creation of the newspaper the founders have decided to ignore sports, as many games are played on Sundays, a “body cult” is created around it and excessive amounts of money are being paid in transfers of the participating players. ”So we have no sport at all,” Stam told a Volkskrant-reporter.

If the Netherlands wins the World Cup, I will give a BJ to all my followers.

Dutch Porn star Bobbi Eden has promised all her followers oral sex in the case of a Dutch victory in the World Cup 2010. The moment she did this, last tuesday, Bobbi had less than 5,000 followers. Now, two days later, she has 65,000.

Fortunately, Bobbi is not alone. In completing this tiresome  job, she has assured herself of the help of colleagues Vicky Vette, Hybrid and Miss Gabby Quinteros.

UPDATE: we’re one day further and Bobbi has almost welcomed her 100,000th follower. She is still determined to finish her job and has promised to come up with more detailed information on monday.

UPDATE2: The morning of the finals, Bobbi tells her 109,030 followers that “things have gone a little bit out of hand”, but that #teamBJ will do as promised.

For the first time in history, Spain or the Netherlands will be the owner of the soccer World Cup. The Netherlands lost the finals in 1974 and 1978. For Spain, European champion and the winner of yesterday’s World Cup semi-finals against Germany, it is the first time it reached the finals.

Although the Netherlands is undefeated in its last 24 matches (and won all of this year’s World Cup matches), Spain is considered the favorite. The country has been playing the best football of the tournament (maybe equaled only by Germany) and can count on a stable core of Barcelona players on its team.

The fans of both countries have shown themselves confident though. The celebrations after winning the semifinals have been gigantic in Spain as well as in the Netherlands. Lots of extra flights to South Africa have been rapidly arranged, from Madrid as well as from Amsterdam. And the rest of the country will be in front of a TV screen – most likely watching with a lot of friends. It is difficult to imagine, though, that a new TV viewer record will be set. Last Wednesday, when the Netherlands beat Uruguay in the semi-finals, the incredible total of 12.3 million Dutchmen watched the game. This is exactly 75% of the population. Never before has a TV show reached that many people.

How the Dutch watched the semifinals:

Telegraaf, Holland's leading newspaper, proud supporter of the national team

The country has turned orange.

Millions of fans have been celebrating all night.

The day after, orange is still the leading color on the streets.

In the offices, casual friday seems to have turned into orange wednesday.

Hardly a single word in today’s newspapers about the difficult discussions that should lead to a new cabinet.

Any non-orange conversation is rare today.

Morning meetings have been canceled because of lack of participants.

Productivity seems to have reached an all time low.

My colleague Jaap at the office

What will The Netherlands look like if sundays’s finals will be won?

Celebrations all over the country after the Dutch soccer team beat Uruguay for the world cup in South Africa. With this sixth consecutive victory during the championships, the Dutch have reached the finals. Next sunday they will play against the winner of Germany – Spain.

The so called “sober” Dutch seem to have massively left their homes to shout their Hup Holland Hup slogans in millions of variations. The cities look mediterranean with tens of thousands of people outside. In some cities, like The Hague and Rotterdam, police have cleared certain areas in an attempt to keep them safe.

Immediately after the match thousands of people have tried to book a flight to South Africa in an attempt to watch the finals. KLM has decided to charter at least four extra planes.