It is a make or break Sunday for PSV as they are three points behind leaders and visitors Ajax, five games before the end of the season. A defeat would create a six point gap, while a draw would make them dependant on Ajax’s results in the remaining game as well as it opens...

It is September 1975. Both teams had dropped one point after four games, chasing Feyenoord with the full score. I was 12 and had the incredible luck that the neighbours had an extra ticket for the boys enclosure which made this my first live Eredivisie game. This terrace was limited to under...

The quarter final draw for the Dutch cup has thrown up some mouthwatering ties, like PSV v Feyenoord and Vitesse v Ajax. Four of the Eredivisie top 5 meet this week, while the fifth of the bunch, FC Twente, choose to leave in the second round. Three years ago Feyenoord went to Eindhoven at...

The first English team to play Ajax in Amsterdam conceded its biggest defeat in European Cup history. Liverpool lost 5-1 in the fog of the Olympic Stadium.  Bill Shankly claimed his team would settle the matter at Anfield, but they did not: 2-2. Apparently, the famous coach noticed how he...

Ajax return to the Bernabeu Stadium last season was not a happy one. However, no one can take away their historic performance from April 1973 when they came to win 0-1. The game was all the more memorable for Gerrie Mühren’s showpiece. “I was waiting for Ruud Krol to move...

After conquering the Champions League in 1995 Ajax continued to win during the rest of the year, despite the departure of Clarence Seedorf and Frank Rijkaard. Unlikely characters as Winston Bogarde and the young Kiki Musampa easily joined Van Gaal’s footballing machine. Both played...

Seventeen years ago today, Louis van Gaal’s Ajax had one of its finest European nights when it demolished Bayern München in the second leg of the CL-semi-final in the Olympic Stadium. The first in Munich had been goalless and Ajax were not really sure where their limits were. They were...

Half-time during a live game on television is usually ten minutes of commercials, mixed with a couple of  empty quotes by the pundits. Recently Eredivisie Live suddenly livened up these lost minutes in the middle of Feyenoord v Ajax, when a camera crew knocked on the door of the...