Sjaak Swart fully understands the Ajax supporters who celebrated the national title of their club on Sunday afternoon, he said on Monday morning in conversation with Wilfred Genee at Radio Veronica. ‘Mister Ajax’ thus responded to the words of Valentijn Driessen from The Telegraph, who criticized the management of Ajax on Sunday evening and spoke in his column about ‘a huge fat middle finger to the whole of the Netherlands’. Thousands of Ajax fans cheered the selection on Sunday afternoon after the victory against FC Emmen (4-0) on the parking deck, where the selection showed the scale.
Swart seemed to have to let the championship game of his club pass. Like all other supporters, he was also not welcome in the stadium last weekend. But the clubman did not agree with that. “This time I thought, the final, we can become champion. I think that ‘Mister Ajax’ is also part of that”, he looks back on the message that he was not welcome in the Johan Cruijff ArenA. “That is also the case abroad. So I had sent Marc Overmars a message that I thought I should be there. Then I got back: ‘Maybe’. I thought: well …”
Then it remained silent for a while, after which Swart still got the green light to attend the match against FC Emmen. “I got a call from a lady who said that I could be there anyway. I really liked that, that it was arranged anyway. I was allowed in the board box because someone had given up his place. I don’t know who that was. was beautiful.” After the success of the previous round of play, clubs had high hopes to welcome fans to the stadiums again this weekend. However, the cabinet did not agree and so it will be empty again in the stands on Saturday and Sunday.
Swart finds it perfectly understandable that Ajax supporters still went to the stadium in the afternoon. “Valentine should not be furious”, the former professional football player refers to the column of the football chief. “Supporters are also entitled to it a bit. Of course they have to keep a meter and a half away, and they have to. But if you become champion, that’s once a year. You can also see them in the park. There are parties with hundreds of people. , which they don’t even know about. They all shout that it shouldn’t happen. It’s one night, come on! “
After the 4-0 victory over FC Emmen, the Ajax selection received the championship bowl in the empty Johan Cruijff ArenA. Thousands of fans then waited for the group of players outside under the parking deck. “The Ajax party was a middle finger to the corona victims, medical care, police, catering, zoos, amusement parks, enforcers who have to throw people off for 95 euros, politics and all people who do respect the rules. And let’s not forget to the majority of the Ajax supporters, who did behave and did not rattle at the gates of the Johan Cruijff ArenA ”, Driessen wrote on Sunday evening.