Wesley Sneijder reacts with some venom on Monday to Hugo Borst’s column in the General Journal. The columnist paid attention to Theo Janssen who, in his eyes, was too fat on the bench at Vitesse and in that context he also placed Sneijder in the category of ‘cosy, funny fatties’. Sneijder does not really feel like coming up with a response, although he clearly shows what he thinks of Borst’s words.
“I was thinking of Theo’s contemporaries Van der Vaart and Sneijder,” Borst writes in his weekly contribution. “They tend towards corpulence. Maybe I should say: they are, just like Theo, fun, funny fatties who used to be able to play football very well. I want to emphasize what they do quite nicely. That those men were great footballers, and maybe still well, although I wouldn’t feel the need to see them play football now, just because I know how good they were thirty kilos ago,” says Borst.
Sneijder’s response
Sneijder responds on Monday Veronica Offside on the column of Borst. “If I have to respond to that every time, to Hugo Borst. I don’t feel like it at all. He thinks it’s great that he (Wilfred Genee, ed.) Uses his name again. He gets a stiff pee from home. You have to don’t even quote that man. What’s the added value of this man shouting something like that? And that we’re going to talk about that tonight? I don’t think anyone at home is waiting for that. I sometimes respond to Hugo, but nice and fine that he shouts things like this. What do you do with it?”, Sneijder wonders aloud.
Table companion Andy van der Meijder steps into the breach for Sneijder. “He has stopped playing football, then he can still live? He has always done everything for Dutch football, can’t he just enjoy his life after his career?” Wim Kieft also gives Sneijder a helping hand. “A little predisposition to get fat, you can’t do much about that, can you?”