Sunday, May 2, 2021 at 9:20 PM• Yanick Vos • Last update: 21:28

Valentijn Driessen has in his column in The Telegraph hit hard at the club management of Ajax. The newspaper’s chief of football finds it incomprehensible that the club has allowed it to celebrate the 35th national title with the fans, who had gathered in their thousands outside the Johan Cruijff ArenA on Sunday. Driessen believes that Ajax has run away from its responsibility by allowing the party. “Director Edwin van der Sar and his fellow board members Marc Overmars, Menno Geelen and Susan Lenderink have raised a huge fat middle finger to all of the Netherlands by allowing players, trainers and staff to celebrate the national title with the fans.”

After the 4-0 victory over FC Emmen, the Ajax selection received the championship bowl in the empty Johan Cruijff ArenA. Thousands of fans were waiting for the group of players outside under the parking deck. The supporters got their way because the entire group of players, the technical staff and members of the management showed their faces and let themselves be sung. “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 behaved themselves and did not rattle at the gates of the Johan Cruijff ArenA ”, Driessen writes on Sunday evening.

Ajax has become champion with great conviction. With three games to play, the lead on pursuer PSV is no less than fourteen points. “But it shows a shocking arrogance to assume that Ajax also imagines itself to be above the law. Otherwise it cannot be explained that the club management allows itself to make its own plan in this terrible corona pandemic and to believe that they are untouchable. ” Driessen also wonders why general manager Edwin van der Sar made no attempt to send home the players who gathered outside the stadium during the match. “In fact, the management actively and fully consciously cooperated in ignoring all corona measures. It allowed the Ajax family to report on the edge of the parking deck with the championship scale and KNVB Cup. How impudent. As if corona did not exist. ”

Thousands of fans celebrated the Ajax championship outside the Johan Cruijff ArenA on Sunday.

To prevent escalation, the police decided not to intervene on Sunday and to end the party that was celebrated by the thousands of Ajax fans. Driessen states that the club and mayor Femke Halsema have taken major health risks. He thinks the party could be a source of many corona infections. “If Ajax and Halsema’s considerations turn out to be wrong, then this cannot remain without consequences for the responsible policymakers Van der Sar and Halsema,” said Driessen, who also has no good word to say about Erik ten Hag’s response to the proceedings. corona policy. After the victory over Emmen, the trainer criticized the decision not to allow supporters to attend the championship match on Sunday. “Where the hospitals and IC’s are so full that regular care has been scaled down and code black threatens, the Ajax coach found it incomprehensible that no fans were allowed into the stadium for the championship match.”