Are you watching the Champions League final today?
Champions League final (kovop58 / Shutterstock.com)
Today in Madrid the final of the most important club competition, the Champions League, will be played between Liverpool and Aja… sorry Tottenham Hotspur. Well, the dramatic loss of Ajax in the semi-final still makes many tongues loose, many prominent people, including Jurgen Klopp, think that not Spurs but Ajax should have been in the final.
Fans of Feyenoord and PSV will have different thoughts about that, but they have not seen the drama of Amsterdam. After all, the many fans of the Rotterdam and Eindhoven club do not watch Ajax play football. That is, they look, but of course cannot say so out loud.
Anyway, it's no different and so there are two English teams in the final and every Dutch football fan can watch with confidence. Who is going to win? Liverpool with the Dutch Van Dijk and Wijnaldum or the Spurs with our Belgian friends Vertonghen and Alderweireld, we'll see!
Thailand
Thai television will also broadcast the match and then there are other options to experience the match via Dutch, Belgian or English TV. In Pattaya there are plenty of catering establishments where you can watch the match while enjoying a beer and in the company of other enthusiasts. However, in some places, such as Bangkok, that will have to be done indoors, because the hospitality industry there inexorably stops at 2 am. That is exactly the time that the match starts, because the time difference with Madrid is 5 hours.
Watch or not
After the lost semi-final against Ajax, I had planned to leave the final as the final and not watch it. But the closer the match day approached, it started to tickle more and more, because I am a football fan. The late time was initially also an objection, but I persuaded myself to go and have a look and then stay in bed a little longer tomorrow. I watch that with a number of English friends in Megabreak in Pattaya.
Finally
Shortly after Ajax's lost match, an article appeared by some professor, who claimed that the whole thing about football should be put into perspective. I agree, a football game can be very fun and exciting, but there are more important things happening in the world. So, enjoy watching, enjoy and tomorrow is Sunday, another normal day!
I am a Feyenoord supporter and I admit that I watched 020 against Tottenham. I also really enjoyed it, but especially the last seconds. Can still enjoy it now. I'm going to watch tonight too and I hope Liverpool take the cup with the big ears.
I don't feel like getting out of bed at night for football.
But can enjoy nice summaries in the morning.
And that included the game yikes against tottenham.
Also give it to Liverpool, especially now that they have not become champions of England.
I have had a Feyenoord season ticket for 48 years and I also watched and, like Peter, I enjoyed the last seconds. Wonderful and while I don't wish Tottenham anything (just think of the 1978 UEFA cup final).
At World Cup and European competitions you have to stand behind your own people!
During the campaigns abroad with Feyenoord, it was always a game of challenge and land grabbing with excesses to recoup the costs.
Germany was the nicest country to jester but over the years with age the hatred decreases I have noticed and I am happy about that in contrast to less free spirits.
OT: Feyenoord is not playing so there is no point in disturbing my rhythm and may the best win.
I haven't watched a feed ball in years.
Has nothing to do with football in my opinion, but whoever has the most money has the best players, so the best chances.
Mi would require every club to involve half of the players from their own city. (and then no import, but someone who was born and raised there)
I am also very annoyed by the dominance of very capital powerful clubs. Football should take a look at the MLB, the American professional baseball league. Things are much, much better organized there. All rules that prevent you from buying a champion team. Consequence: if you win about 55% of your games (the American baseball league has 162 games per season, so it sucks that the football players have to play so much) you might become a champion.
And then introduce an orange card for tearing each other's shirts and kicking each other unhappily for months. I'm going to watch the ladies more and more; you don't see that kind of rock there. That women's game has much more to do with sports. PS I'm for Liverpool. !!!
totally agree. It no longer has anything to do with sport and sportsmanship, pure commerce. And the people who made those clubs great, the ordinary working people, can no longer afford the entrance fee and all the merchandise. New, expensive outfit every year. Ridiculous. And then the roughness of the game, because the stakes are high. Rude. I don't watch it anymore, but the excellent game of Ajax and Liverpool has not escaped my notice. You couldn't ignore that either, in every TV program attention was paid to it as if the world stood still.
Let's face it, top football clubs are just companies that have football as a revenue model. Why criticize clubs that earn a lot of money and therefore pay the best players? It's those players who have to live up to it, right? See how the champions league ended for Real Madrid and Juventus against Ajax? Were their top players worth their money? Let's put everything in perspective….
I have a subscription to Euro-tv, so I can watch whenever I want. It's usually also at night because I'm a bad sleeper. I am an Ado male myself, my father was a Rotterdammer. Visited a lot with him Feonoord is my second club. But still I had allowed Ajax to play the final and they deserved it. Can therefore digest some reactions badly, if you care about sports and especially if a Dutch interest is at stake, you should not react with a sign in front of your head. Anyway, let Liverpool win, they deserve that this season.
As a born and raised Amsterdammer and Ajax fan, I have to admit that I lay awake for a few hours after the elimination and luckily it never had such an effect on me as on many others. In my opinion, beating down a football club without good reason should not take place. I always assume the best should win and the match shows that. If people can't stand that, they better stay away from the football fields. Also better for their own health. Incidentally, Feijenoord needed the best Ajaxied to become national champion and a thank you has already been given for that. I must have missed it then. I thought that Ajax deserved more, but that in the end they played stupidly. Long balls forward that were intercepted every time and from which another attack came that was then nervously reacted to. Yes, that last part made her turn the neck. Anyway, it's just football and putting things into perspective is fortunately something that is in my genes. I'll take a look and you would think that Liverpool should be able to win, but I also thought that of Ajax. It's a tedious and persistent team that Spurs so I'll be curious.
Feijenoord is a neighborhood in Rotterdam, but you probably mean the football club Feyenoord. They made history by being the first club in the Netherlands to win a European Cup (1970) and they were also the last to do so in 2002. Everything in between is not important for the history books.
First this, I watched all my club's matches in the middle of the night and I can safely say that I enjoyed the eye-catching football of Ajax and I didn't think I was the only one to say that, but I can also safely say that they are still a few years behind in Rotje knor just like those lampshades from Eindhoven still have to train for a while maybe you have a chance to finish a bit higher this season but I don't think so we'll see but you never know if you still I've never kicked a ball, so it's better to quietly sit down and watch than comment.
but which is true and that made me think that it is better for the bookmakers that 2 English clubs play against each other, but that there is also a very big problem coming there in Madrid because I used to have several times when I was on vacation experienced murder and manslaughter in spain between the hollyguns of the various clubs who were on holiday there and did not play the final but the gardia sevile knows what to do with that and ff by the way it doesn't matter to me ... who wins as long as i play football fan see a nice game and may the best win so have fun if you don't fall asleep.
Greetings from an AJAX fan from Amsterdam.
THERE is only 1 club that plays eye-catching football and that is the club in the red/white shirt and the name may be AJAX from my Amsterdam.
And I wish you all a lot of viewing pleasure.
I'm definitely going to watch, as a fan of good football and supporter of the club that should have been in the final, you just can't miss this match.
I also understand that there are Feijenoord supporters who are not going to watch, then you just have nothing to do with top quality football.