Sunday afternoon football
I'll be attending my first Ajax match this afternoon. I'm not a big fan of Ajax -- they're a money team (think New York Yankees) that tends to dominate the Dutch league -- but they are my "home" team now and are playing the last-placed team in the Dutch Eredivisie.
I'll report back soon with results and commentary.
UPDATE: THE REPORT
The game ended, as expected, in a victory for Ajax, by a score of 2-0. Still, Ajax was greeted by boos and hisses when it was all over, mostly because they played quite badly and wasted chances left and right. Both goals came in injury time of the 2nd half.
Because Ajax was playing so poorly, and the opposition was last-placed FC Den Bosch, the game on the field wasn't terribly entertaining. More entertaining was the exasperation of the fans. As somebody who grew up on the Jets and Bombers, I feel like I can identify. I'm sure there was a Reinebold-era equivalent of the "Koeman rot op!" chant that I heard (Koeman is, for now, Ajax's coach, while "rot op" is a rather unpleasant way of telling somebody to get lost). But, the Reinebold-era Bombers were dreadful, while Ajax is firmly in 3rd place in an 18-team league. So, to me, the fans sounded a bit like spoiled whiners, and part of me was hoping Den Bosch would manage to steal the game.
2 Comments:
So your post made me look at the Eredivise standings and much to my surprise, AZ was in 2nd place! What a surprise for me, since when I left Alkmaar, AZ had just been promoted to the eredivise.
Regardless, an Ajax game was sort of the holy grail for the trainees in our group (then again, they were first in the eredivise and made up half of the national team.)
So, yeah, blah, blah, blah. There you go, random musings from a crazy ex-trainee.
Jason E. Lehman
I had picked AZ as 'my team' after spending the first 6 months in Schoorl but regretably, never made it to a match in Alkmaar. They're still in the UEFA Cup, have 3 or 4 players with the Oranje and are having an all-around nice season.
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