In the Half Space

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Excelsior fight back from two down to leave Telstar rueing missed chances

If Telstar’s return to the Eredivisie remains limited to one season, they may well look at their pair of games against Excelsior and lament the leads they let slip. For the second time this season, Anthony Correia’s men surrendered a two-goal advantage against Excelsior, Irakli Yegoian and Noah Naujoks scoring late on to rescue a…

NEC subs strike late to win at Feyenoord

As temperatures have plummeted, so have Feyenoord’s title chances. Two weeks after losing to Go Ahead Eagles, they were beaten 4-2 by another member of the Eredivisie’s upwardly-mobile middle class in NEC Nijmegen, a late brace from substitute Kento Shiogai making the difference on a frigid afternoon in Rotterdam. The result leaves Feyenoord six points…

Does Dutch Football Have a Far-Right Problem?

The Netherlands’ rightwards lurch has spread into stadiums For a few hours, the heart of Dutch democracy was transformed into a battlefield. On September 20th, an anti-refugee protest in the centre of The Hague turned violent; police vans were set alight, and the headquarters of the progressive D66 party had its windows smashed in, with…

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