There will also be nets in De Kuip during Feyenoord’s potential championship match with Go Ahead Eagles, it reports. General Journal. The Rotterdam club has unsuccessfully inquired with the KNVB to apply the new regulations less strictly around a possible championship game. The KNVB came up with a crystal clear answer to the leader’s request: the match will also be stopped with ‘joy beer’. Feyenoord therefore feels compelled to let the nets hang in order to prevent a doomsday scenario.
After the lighter incident during the lost semi-final of the TOTO KNVB Cup (1-2), in which Ajax player Davy Klaassen was hit, Feyenoord made the decision to leave the nets in De Kuip for the rest of the season. In recent weeks, many supporters have expressed the hope that the safety measure would be limited during a possible championship game. Feyenoord would prefer to do this in part or in full, but wanted the certainty that the game would not be stopped in the event of a ‘beer of joy’.
The KNVB therefore does not go along with this, writes journalist Mikos Gouka of it General Journal Wednesday afternoon. “Even if Feyenoord is on the title track on Sunday and there are supporters who out of joy, for example after a goal, throw beer into the air and consciously or unconsciously let it land on the field, the arbitration will apply the tightened rules.” According to Gouka, Feyenoord then decided to hang the nets around the entire field. The club is afraid of an anticlimax, with the championship game possibly having to be played in an empty Kuip on Tuesday afternoon.
For many Feyenoord fans, the decision is quite a downer. The view for the supporters present is a lot less, while the nets also influence any historic championship images that will be made after a victory at Go Ahead. Feyenoord can win the national title again on Sunday after exactly six years. When the Stadium club wins against the number eleven in the Eredivisie, club icons Giovanni van Bronckhorst and Robin van Persie hand out the bowl to captain Orkun Kökçü around 6.30 pm.
The homage
The eventual honoring of Feyenoord is scheduled for Monday, May 15 at 12:00 p.m. Both the NOS if RTV Rijnmond is present at the championship celebration with a live television broadcast. The public broadcaster only starts broadcasting at 11:45 am, while Rijnmond is present from 10:00 am. During the expected ceremony, an alcohol ban will apply, we know General Journal already reported. People in the area of the ceremony are not allowed to drink or carry alcohol.