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Shame on Ajax!

April 21st, 2009 | By: Jan | 13 Comments »

A heartfelt article by an Ajax supporter:

It’s Sunday April 19, 2009. Ajax just got it’s ass whipped by PSV: 6-2! On the day the competition could have been just a tad more exciting, Van Basten’s team takes a day off. Again.

As an Ajax supporter, I like to write with pride and bravery. Amsterdam Arrogance it’s called, and it’s the symbol of our club, according to many.

But not today. Today I bow deep for AZ from Alkmaar.

I have criticized Marco van Basten more in the past. I was dumbfounded when the supporters’ club stated that it backed Van Basten in his policies. And against the players.

The bad results weren’t caused by lack of tactical intelligence or the inability of the coach to win the players for him. No no, according to Ajax’ management and the supporters club, it was all because of the lousy mentality of the players.

Now, a month later, I know I was right. And so was the supporters’ club.

The way the players have allowed PSV to humiliate them in one of the season’s most important year leaves no room for debate.

The blunders, the fumbling, the lack of spirit hurt my eyes. The team that put on a show last week allowed itself to be voluntarily slaughtered by a spirited and eager PSV.

And our inexperienced coach stood there and watched. He failed to motivate his lads to fire on all cylinders.To do exactly what we expect from a top club. That you show the world you’ll give it your all to snatch on to that last chance.

Players and coach, take your responsibility now. Welcome the new champs with an honorary bow. Congratulated the players and coach and offer them the flowers that you normally chuck to the supporters. A gesture of respect and of shame.

The visiting team next week in the Arena, showed us how football is supposed to be played in the Eredivisie. And they showed us what Ajax could have done and should have done.

AZ is the new Ajax. Passion, fun and team spirit. Fresh, young and mainly Dutch lads, fortified with exciting talents from abroad. A coach with vision, tactically one of the best in the world. And a coach squeezing the best out of his young team.

And a coach with an Ajax-heart. I salute AZ. They deserved it. Louis, congrats! Ajax: shame on you! We never deserved to be called a topclub this season.

Tags: Ajax, AZ, Group C, Van Basten, van Gaal

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Comments

By Bart | April 21st, 2009 at 4:06 pm

Real’s game against Getafe had a very exciting last quarter of an hour. 3 goals and a missed Penalty kick. Ridiculous miss too btw. Anyway Higuain and Guti really saved Madrid today.

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By otto | April 21st, 2009 at 5:04 pm

and robben injured after coming on as a sub.

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By Michel-Olivier | April 21st, 2009 at 7:12 pm

what i want to see next season

out:
gabri
stekel
lindgren
silva
leonardo
sarpong
kennedy b
sno
suarez(for money)

in:
babel(loan)
berg
v.wolfswinkel
braafheid
defour(the belgian)

promote:
r. sneijder
castillion

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By Mario | April 21st, 2009 at 7:46 pm

What I´d like to see in Ajax is love to the team by the players. Do they actually know about team´s past and history?. They play like amateurs sometimes. I think that van Basten´s next season would be his time to get results or say goodbye. What a shame, 6-2 vs PSV is pathetic!

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By Tiju | April 22nd, 2009 at 12:37 am

Ajax needs to rebuild the team with a strong gutsy captain like schaars,etc their diffence is laughable.I think they should buy some good rock solid diffenders.Hope Vaart will join with ajax and they will form team with Vaart as theie Nucleous.
Castillion and Rodney needs to be Promoted to th first team.

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By Tiju | April 22nd, 2009 at 12:41 am

Could nt see the match Pool Vs Arsenal.Lucky poolians some how finding the goals, woh !!!!!horrible again they escaped from arsenal.I am teribily irretated by the liverpool goals.May be arsenal diffence is the weakest diffence among the top four in BPL.

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By Tiju | April 22nd, 2009 at 12:43 am

Liverpool saviors in crucialmatches-Benayuon,Torress,Gerad(he diddnt play yesterday).

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By Peter vdL | April 22nd, 2009 at 2:50 am

vaart will not return to Ajax. Hamburg SV is a good bet though.

By Alex | April 22nd, 2009 at 3:59 am

I realized yesterday that the netherlands, eredivisie and even oranje has almost no credit or respect at all with the bigger audience. Eredivisie is even by dutch people called the mickey mouse league, no foreign football fan respects it. PSV out of CL in a blink, Feyenoord,Heerenveen out of UEFA Cup fast, Ajax an Twente doing well in UEFA Cup but eliminated nonetheless.

and then our selection, which looks strong to us, but reality hurts.
Our players are by many being seen as not good enough, divers and highly injurie prone.

Perez planning to sell V.Nistelrooij, Seedorf being whistled at by Milan fans, so was Drenthe by Real fans, V.d.Vaart and Sneijder being seen as mediocre players who add nothing to Real, Robben relapses into injurie, called glass man, and now strong calls to sell him as he “only costs Madrid money”, V.Persie tremendous player and more respected in England, but nevertheless regularly picking up injuries, V.Bommel being seen as an ordinary aggresive, dumb and violent player, De Jong highly underrated, Babel on the bech at Liverpool, Kuyt being seen as no more than a hard worker. Boulahrouz often on the Stuttgart bench, Mathijsen being seen as a mediocre defender, Bouma highly underrated, Ooijer seen as mediocre(true ) , people remember Gio for his time at Barca but he has plunged in level, V.d.Sar often seen as a good keeper but nothing more, leaning on Vidic-Ferdinand, yet people saying Stekelenburg is nowhere near as good. I regularly hear people say there are no good dutch defenders or keepers, Zuiverloon and especially Donk by quite a few being seen as overrated talents. Huntelaar heavily criticised for not scoring immediately, then went on scoring a impressive bunch of goals and critics are silent at least for now.

Afellay, Braafheid, Marcellis, V.d.Wiel, De Guzman, Schaars, De Zeeuw, Emanuelson, Elia, Beerems, unknown or underrated just by the fact that they play in Eredivisie

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By Alex | April 22nd, 2009 at 4:04 am

and yet if they were all fit ,available and in form, you could make more than one title winning squads

for example
———Huntelaar—–V.Persie
Robben——Sneijder
———-De Jong—-V.Bommel
Bouma-Mathijsen-Boulahrouz-Heitinga
———-V.d.Sar

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By Tiju | April 22nd, 2009 at 4:39 am

@Alex man you could be right in several points.I saw the matches ajax Vs PSV and Feyn VS Twente.i Saw lots of hard work by all these teams they played at the same pace of BPL.and all these teams are well capable of beating any BPL team convincingly EXcept TOP FOUR BPL TEAMS.Offcourse we lack some Brilliance and experiance thats but we have rest of the things in our hand.

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By Bart | April 22nd, 2009 at 9:48 am

Crap, once again Robben is missing the Barcelona match He is what gets Madrid’s hearts ticking. Dammit