Dick Jol, who remembers the striking former referee? The 66-year-old Hagenaar, who stopped whistling 14 years ago, works as a volunteer in the kitchen of nursing home HHW care Houtwijk.
There he is still regularly addressed about his period as a leader, as journalist Dennis van Bergen writes in a beautiful portrait in General Journal.
Jol tells about a Feyenoord supporter who years later still had not forgotten a decision. And got a story.
Recently, a Feyenoord supporter came to him in the care center. Jol was just checking the expiration date of the cans of tomato paste when the man wanted to talk about the 2002 Classic.
In the meantime, a lot had happened in the world, such as a few wars here and there and a corona virus that had also forced people from Rotterdam to stay at home. But the Feyenoord fan’s thoughts were mainly on that, according to him, the theatrical way in which Ajax striker Nikos Machlas had stumbled over the arms of goalkeeper Edwin Zoetebier more than twenty years ago. ,,You really saw that wrong, Dick”, Jol heard, in a tone that suggested as if the match was yesterday. Then, with a raised voice: ,,That damn Machlas already lay down, dude, even before Ed got out of his goal. Drunk!”
Feyenoord players don’t forget. It turns out.
If the man was right. Judge for yourself the images below, with the moment in question starting at 0:25.
