FCB Pais Bajos Day

Kobranzilla · Apr 30, 2007

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=426480&cc=5901

PSV - where Cocu layed a key role

Despite winning the Dutch title in the most dramatic of circumstances on Sunday, PSV Eindhoven coach Ronald Koeman is not sure he will keep his job.

PSV clinched the title by the difference of a solitary goal after they finished level on points with Ajax Amsterdam while AZ Alkmaar, the championship leaders going into the final day, lost and crashed to third.

PSV's 5-1 win over Vitesse Arnhem left them top with 75 points and a goal difference of plus 50 while Ajax, who beat Willem II Tilburg 2-0, also finished on 75 points but lost out on the title with a goal difference of plus 49.
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Then there was AZ Alkmaar

Alkmaar, favourites after moving top last week and enjoying a seven-goal advantage over the other two, were stunned 3-2 by Excelsior Rotterdam and plunged down to third, missing out on their first title since 1981.

'This could not be better, Van Gaal is crying and Ajax whines, what more do you want?' a PSV fan was quoted as saying on the front page of the Algemeen Dagblad.

Alkmaar coach Louis van Gaal said they had no one to blame but themselves for not finishing the job and said he felt sorry for club owner Dirk Scheringa and his young squad.

'I've won a number of trophies but for most of my players and Scheringa it would have been their first one and for them this is terrible,' he said.
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And then in Amsterdam

In Tilburg Ajax coach Henk ten Cate, who won the Spanish title and Champions League last season as Frank Rijkaard's assistant, was furious after missing the club's 30th title by a whisker.

'We are a bunch of idiots to give it away like this,' he said of the day that will go into history as one of the most dramatic the Dutch League has produced.
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Koeman is a bit of an enigma as a head coach, he does surprisingly well in Portugal and now with PSV (and formally with Ajax), yet seems to rub people the wrong way, and is always the odd man out

XaviandXabi · May 3, 2007

Ten Cate comment is hilarious but not really fair to his club and players