The Gardeners' World Blog

There has been an entertaining, and educational, discussion on these pages about what we should call the Dutch team during the World Cup.

Obviously, this is no longer much of an issue, following the team's untimely demise in the second round (and incidentally, I was as gutted as anyone that they went out, as The Oranje have long been my second international team - my early years having coincided with all that total football of the '70s).

But the aftermath of the Dutch defeat to Portugal feels like a good opportunity to revisit the subject of names...