Unsportsman-like conduct

Last week PSV beat Ajax fairly easy. As you can see, PSV created three chances, as did Ajax. As PSV played there worst game since two months, Ajax where the better side. Ajax-coach Henk ten Cate proved to be a sore loser when he kept on criticizing PSV's game throughout the week. According to him PSV set the tone in Dutch football with their ugly, defensive but effective style of play: "When I left Holland for Barcelona three years ago I called PSV a boring team. Now, it's the new standard. I don't want to be compared with that." Looks like coach Ten Cate is settling in very well with the arrogant narrow-minded tradition in Amsterdam.

He is right when he says PSV set the standard in Dutch football. They are going on their sixth championship in eight years. But he's not right when he says PSV play a boring, defensive style. Facts don't lie: PSV have scored 35 times this season, compared to ajax' 29. Maybe this post should've been named The Emperors' Cloths pt. II...

I will attend ajax's game against FC Twente this afternoon, with Jur, Vince and Rog. It will be my third visit to Amsterdam in four days, after The Killers on Thursday and the regulators on Friday. Am I changing?