Post by chrish on Mar 8, 2011 22:32:45 GMT
Last Saturday I payed 15 Euros to watch a Dutch Eredivise match between Vitesse Arnhem V VVV Venlo. 15 euros. Ok, so Vitesse aren't the greatest team and VVV Venlo are second from bottom but it's still cheaper to watch Divison 1 football in Holland than it is to watch Torquay. My friend Koert who came with me to Arnhem last night also came to Lincoln earlier this season to watch us play and also made a comment about the price we paid last night at Arnhem to the price we paid at Sincil Bank.
The differences between what I see and hear at Plainmoor, what I've seen in Germany and what I saw in Holland last night are interesting I think. Of those in the Zuid stand (Vitesse's popside) last night who payed 15 euros I would say that 10% of those actually wanted to be in the stadium. 1% wanted to throw fireworks at the goalkeeper, 20% made paper planes out of the free programmes to throw at people, 10% threw beer carrying trays, 5% wanted to throw beer at the "lul" who threw both fireworks at the Venlo goalkeeper and the rest sat there and consumed the football on show or when Venlo had a good 15 minute spell in the first half, actually turned on their own team.
It's wasn't as though the football was of a poor standard. I thought the quality was quite high. Vitesse have some very young players and sometimes their confidence wavers and sometimes their courage to retry things haven't previously worked disappears but they have an 18 year old kid up front called Marco Van Ginkel who I imagine will be off to PSV or Ajax sooner rather than later and will probably end up in the Premiership in 3 or 4 years. VVV Venlo are small team and aren't that bad apart from they don't create that much and when they do they can't finish chances.
Not much in the way of atmosphere but it's a nice stadium. It can hold up to 25,000 but there was only 13,574 and one bloody great Eagle they let loose before kick off.
Een voor de televisiecamera!
The differences between what I see and hear at Plainmoor, what I've seen in Germany and what I saw in Holland last night are interesting I think. Of those in the Zuid stand (Vitesse's popside) last night who payed 15 euros I would say that 10% of those actually wanted to be in the stadium. 1% wanted to throw fireworks at the goalkeeper, 20% made paper planes out of the free programmes to throw at people, 10% threw beer carrying trays, 5% wanted to throw beer at the "lul" who threw both fireworks at the Venlo goalkeeper and the rest sat there and consumed the football on show or when Venlo had a good 15 minute spell in the first half, actually turned on their own team.
It's wasn't as though the football was of a poor standard. I thought the quality was quite high. Vitesse have some very young players and sometimes their confidence wavers and sometimes their courage to retry things haven't previously worked disappears but they have an 18 year old kid up front called Marco Van Ginkel who I imagine will be off to PSV or Ajax sooner rather than later and will probably end up in the Premiership in 3 or 4 years. VVV Venlo are small team and aren't that bad apart from they don't create that much and when they do they can't finish chances.
Not much in the way of atmosphere but it's a nice stadium. It can hold up to 25,000 but there was only 13,574 and one bloody great Eagle they let loose before kick off.
Een voor de televisiecamera!
