The third team of football club SV De Braak from Helmond is allowed to play football again, after the team was suspended after a fight during a game. In addition, a supporter from Helmond struck the referee unconscious. This weekend the measure will stop from the KNVB, so the team was no longer allowed to play matches. But the stocking is not yet finished.
8 February hit the flame on the field of SV Rood-Wit in Veldhoven. It was restless there, there were bumps and there was a grim atmosphere. “I said to the referee: flute,” says Harm van Stiphout, chairman of SV De Braak. “But he didn’t want to do that.”
A supporter of the Helmond club went onto the field and mixed in the unrest. He then hit the referee, a 70-year-old man, unconscious. It was left with a slight concussion and a balance disorder.
The result: even more unrest. Fingering, criticism, anger. From referees, who lose pleasure in their profession because of these types of incidents. But also from people who think it is a social problem that goes beyond clubs such as SV De Braak. They believe that the KNVB should intervene harder. And bales of people in the stands who ventilate their frustrations in this way.
“I hope it stays quiet now.”
“SV De Braak is now being looked at all the way to misbehave someone who has not played a match for us. That is not justified,” the chairman responds. “All that attention does not do our name well. I hope it stays quiet now. And that time heals the wounds.”
The incident lies the club like a stone on the stomach. According to the rules of the KNVB, after such a report, she must come up with a ‘plan of action’, but according to Van Stiphout, she has not been washed against this type of violence. “We as a club cannot prevent this. We cannot guarantee that it will not happen again.”
He makes it clear that the association rejects the behavior. That she punishes hard, if necessary. The fact that with ‘cancer’ automatically means that you are four games on the couch. But the problem is wider and is more than those who run on studs between the white lines.
“From doctors to homeless people.”
At De Braak, members from all layers of society, 1400 men. And the board only sees what they have been up to when they are already members. “From doctors to homeless”, Van Stiphout describes the image. There are pearls in between, but also a single rotten apple. Who then ruined it for the rest, according to the club.
“They are interested in no one or nothing. The only thing that helps is to maintain. If you misbehave, then that has consequences.” At Van Stiphout the size is full. He lacks support from above. “I am not involved in a football club to act as a jury and judge at the same time. As a club, we are not in hand if there is a short circuit in someone’s head. That is why the KNVB just has to punish very loudly.”
