In the summer of 2010 the seemingly impossible happened: for the first time since the lost finals of 1970 and 1974 the Dutch football team managed to get to the final of the World Cup. Although Spain proved to be the better team in the final, the successes in the World Cup meant a summer full of festive television viewing for the Dutch. From a media perspective the World Cup was also a interesting event … Continue reading
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Essay: ‘Voetbal is oorlog. De strijd naast het veld’
‘Football is war’, legendary Dutch football-coach Rinus Michels once said. While this is true sometimes, the war in football really takes place outside of the stadiums. Football-hooliganism has become a big problem in many European countries. In this essay I take a look at three examples of football wars. The first example is the famous ‘Slag bij Beverwijk’ in 1997, a arranged battle that took place between hooligans from Feyenoord en Ajax resulting in the … Continue reading