The fact that Roger Schmidt did not speak a word to referee Bas Nijhuis during the match between PSV and Feyenoord (1-1), irritates René van der Gijp. The analyst of Veronica Inside hits the PSV trainer hard on Monday evening, who according to him should have gone to the referee to forget their collision earlier this season.
Nijhuis himself tells in the talk show that he did not speak to Schmidt on Sunday. “I entered through a side entrance,” said the arbitrator. “I haven’t seen anyone from PSV. Normally we walk along the field and go into the tunnel there, but now I was guided a little inside, and I came straight out into the dressing room. Perfect actually.” Still, Nijhuis would have liked to have a conversation with Schmidt. “I had also said: if he walks there, then I just go there and shake my hand. From, ‘Come on, let’s go on and we’ll start all over again.’ Anyway, that was not the case. But I must say: he did act professionally (during the match, ed.). He did not interfere further. We have not had any collisions with each other, so it was pretty quiet. “
Van der Gijp hears Nijhuis’s story in amazement. “That’s the most petty thing I’ve heard in the past twenty years,” said the former right-winger. “If you’re a guy like Roger Schmidt anyway, you wait a while until Bas is in the stadium. Then you walk up to him, punch him and say, ‘Let’s forget about that nonsense.” No, but come on. And then let Bas be guided through the stadium a bit like a leper. What are you doing then? Then you are a very pathetic club. ” Johan Derksen believes that managing director Toon Gebrands should have intervened. “Toon should have just walked up to Bas”, said Derksen.
Schmidt himself did not want to say anything about Nijhuis at the press conference. “I have an opinion, but I keep it to myself,” said the German. “Because I’ve talked too much about the referee this season. So I’ll stop. Maybe next season.” Those words are wrong with Derksen. “I find this a bit annoying of him, because he actually says in a nice way: ‘I still think it’s a great bastard, but I won’t say anything more about it, because I already had a suspension.’ If he had been a guy, he would have said, “I talked out of turn.” And: “I sometimes change a player incorrectly, almost every week. A referee sometimes makes a mistake.” Then you are rid of it. “
Finally, Van der Gijp returns to the criticism Bruggink previously expressed on Nijhuis. “Professor Dr. Arnold Bruggink, who then says about Bas:” You know, he may not want to be the best referee, but he does want to be the best known. ” Look: Bas is by far one of the best three referees in the Netherlands. I think that’s Danny Makkelie, Björn Kuipers and Bas. Definitely the three best referees. I’m not saying that because Bas is there, not even at all. “