Tag: Eredivisie

Heracles groundskeeper leaves giant snow penis on the pitch during Eredivisie match

When you want to make your dissatisfaction known in a not so subtle fashion


Dutch club Heracles Almelo had a disastrous first half against Groningen on Saturday, conceding three goals in a span of nine minutes. So when the groundsman came out at halftime to clear a layer of snow off the pitch with his plow, he left a very distinctive and purposeful design for the television cameras. A giant penis.

It’s clear that this was no accident, but it didn’t inspire a second-half comeback from the home side. Groningen pushed their lead to 4–0 before Heracles finally scored a consolation goal in the 90th minute. In short, they really ballsed this one up.


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Vitesse had a couple on a romantic pitchside bed for Valentine’s Day

Taking your significant other to a football match for Valentine’s Day might not be the most romantic choice, but Vitesse tried to change that with a unique competition. A winning couple got to watch the club’s Eredivisie match against Heerenveen from a pitchside bed and spend the night in a local hotel that provided the unusual matchday accommodations.

The bed was sprinkled with rose petals and came with a bottle of wine to set the mood (that thousands of screaming football supporters certainly ruined…unless that’s your thing).

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Ajax celebrate Mother’s Day by walking onto the pitch with theirs

Ajax gave their players’ mothers a Mother’s Day (Moederdag in Dutch) to remember that culminated with the women walking onto the pitch with their sons before the club’s match against Cambuur.

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NAC Breda manager punches through the side of the dugout

Dordrecht ’90 scored twice in a span of two minutes to negate NAC Breda’s lead in the second half of their Eredivisie match on Saturday, prompting NAC manager Robert Maaskant to put his fist through his team’s dugout in a fit of rage.

Maaskant has always been a hot head, but he’s got nothing on the Italian amateur who celebrated a goal by putting his head through the side of the dugout…

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