FEYENOORD recently revealed the pandemic has been comparatively kind to them, partly due to their own prudent processes but also because the club’s fans and partners waived any compensation claims for an unfinished season in 2019-20. Feyenoord made a net loss of around € 6.7 million for the campaign, but their turnover increased from € […]
BAYERN MUNICH joined the illustrious list of teams that have won the treble of domestic league and cup and Champions League when they beat Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 in Lisbon. The Bavarians’ success is remarkable given they changed manager earlier in the campaign, appointing Hans-Dieter Flick as head coach. Flick had been the number two at […]
SURPRISINGLY, only eight teams have managed to win a comparable trio of competitions, although many have gone close. Some of this select group have been built around outstanding individuals, such as Lionel Messi and Ajax’s Johan Cruyff, while others – like Celtic in 1967 – were founded on the team ethic. Inevitable comparisons will be […]
SURPRISINGLY, only eight teams have managed to win a comparable trio of competitions, although many have gone close. Some of this select group have been built around outstanding individuals, such as Lionel Messi and Ajax’s Johan Cruyff, while others – like Celtic in 1967 – were founded on the team ethic. Inevitable comparisons will be […]
HERE AT GOTP Towers, we are big fans of the Dutch – Total Football, Cruyff, Ajax, Feyenoord and PSV. No surprise that we’ve written quite a few pieces on our friends from across the Channel. February 2015: Feyenoord – ‘cause Rotterdam is anywhere In the 1960s, a geography field trip (if you lived in Thurrock) […]
The barman of my hotel in Eindhoven was clearly captivated. “He lives just by the hotel,” he said. “Manchester United are supposed to be interested in him, we see scouts from English clubs here every week.” After the game, a 3-1 win for PSV Eindhoven against Utrecht, the bar was buzzing. “Memphis did it again,” […]
The Netherlands has three globally recognisable teams: Ajax, Feyenoord and PSV Eindhoven. Popular opinion suggests that Ajax and Feyenoord dominated Dutch football for decades, but while it is certainly true that the Amsterdam-Rotterdam axis stood astride the Netherlands in the 1960s, the 1970s belonged to Ajax. The Cruyff-led side won 12 major prizes in that […]
PSV Eindhoven are the winter champions in the Netherlands, topping the Eredivisie by four points with title holders Ajax in second place. Such is the reduced status of Dutch football these days that PSV may be vulnerable to losing some of the players who have taken them to the summit this season. Players like full […]
Everyone’s darlings, Bayern Munich, became the first German team to win the three main prizes they competed for in a single season: the UEFA Champions League, the Bundesliga and the DFB Pokal. They are the latest team to acquire the tag “invincible”. Surprisingly, only seven teams have managed to win a comparable trio of competitions, […]
