Football Daily | Ajax and a potential title choke of apocalyptic proportions

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Denied a nail-biting denouement by the Best League In The World™, where the champions and relegated sides were all but mathematically confirmed about 15 matches ago, more than a few Premier League observers have spent the past couple of weeks glancing towards the Netherlands while exhibiting hitherto unprecedented symptoms of a malaise Football Daily is diagnosing as Eredivisie Envy. For so long the neglected cousin of Europe’s Big Five, the Dutch top flight is largely left to its own devices while its English, Spanish, German, Italian and French relatives chew the fat at European football’s Big Boy table, only diverting their attention towards the low countries when it comes to hoovering up emerging talent. On Wednesday, however, the pancake-flat land of tulips, wooden footwear and uncomfortably forthright conversation stole continental headlines as European heavyweights Ajax completed their latest pratfall en route to what could be one of the most apocalyptic chokes in football history.How do you go from being a kid watching Everton from the Boys’ Pen to having a statue on Goodison Road? If someone had presented me back then with a history of my life, I’d have said: ‘Don’t be silly, nothing like that is ever going to happen to me.’ But it did. When I was told the statue was going to be made it was one of my proudest moments. I’ve had a fantastic football life and it amazes me when I look back on it” – Colin Harvey gets his chat on with Andy Hunter in an interview so heartwarming even your Daily was glowing inside. Continue reading...

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