Evert Santegoeds watched the second Today Inside return of Bas Nijhuis and thought it was a shameful display. “That man is so stoic, isn’t that incredible?”
Bas Nijhuis has attempted for the second time to resume his TV career at Today Inside after the bizarre revelations about his double life, which he maintained with bizarre lies about, for example, his mother’s illness and the adoption of Romanian children. He didn’t want to say anything about that at the VI stool yesterday.
Stoic
Private boss Evert Santegoeds previously threatened one follow up about Bas if his performance would not satisfy him. How does he view the referee’s VI comeback? “Suddenly there he was again. That man is so stoic, isn’t that incredible? That you look like an idiot in front of the whole of the Netherlands,” he says in the podcast Strictly Private.
“You pretend your nose is bleeding and you just sit there. I’m not really into hitting back and it shouldn’t become a smear campaign at all. Last week they kept pretending that when he sat there, I would do it again… Look, that depends on our source, the lady who provides us with information.”
Source is silent
That source is silent, according to Evert. “He has now put the whole thing behind him and that can be easy, because everyone now has an image of Bas Nijhuis, I think, when he walks onto the field in his shorts, they think: oh, that is that crazy! It urgently needs a new whistle. I did some googling and I found an ideal whistle for him!”
Then a cuckoo whistle sounds. “That man is cuckoo! I think every time he intervenes on the field, you should hear this! Hahahaha.”
Uncomfortable
What does co-host Jordi Versteegden think? “It was a bit awkward. What we mainly said in the podcast is: if those men tackle Bas when he is not there, then they must also do so when he is there,” said the Telegraaf reporter.
Evert: “And they did that, but you just can’t get a grip on it. The man has been making everything up and just sits there like his nose is bleeding!”
Don’t respond
Bas says he doesn’t have to respond to anything. “Yes, that is true. He doesn’t have to respond to anything from me, that’s what I said in that affair. ‘You can decide what you are talking about!’, but if you measure other people, it is kind of nice that when it is your turn, you also let the storm wash over you.”
“Bas Nijhuis just continues happily, I believe his girlfriend does too, so who am I to make a whole mess of it? I think it’s fine.”
Enough
It’s enough, says Evert. “I think so. I think people have an image of Bas Nijhuis. If you are a referee you simply have to be credible on all points, private and business. That’s the same as Tom Waes drunkenly driving into an arrow car. That happens in your private life, but you take it with you to your professional life.”
“The three weeks prior to the publication we tried endlessly to get Bas Nijhuis on the phone and he responded exactly as he did yesterday: stoic, pretending that your nose is bleeding and on. We do that too. Cuckoo!”