First a vulgar insult: Rob Jansen, the agent of coach Johnny Heitinga, who was dismissed from Ajax, shamelessly called the almost departed commissioner of the Amsterdam club Danny Blind a tumor. Benign or malignant? The football oncologists have not yet decided on this. A nice detail is that Jansen was Danny’s agent for thirty years and his son Daley for ten years. But they threw him out and this is his revenge. Will it turn out okay? FIFA president Gianni Infantino has created a football peace prize and it will almost certainly go to Donald Trump. Maybe he wants to mediate. That also went well between Russia and Ukraine.
Fortunately, there are also bigger conflicts at play: Hansje Wijers, the elderly, seasoned D66 icon, has given back his informateur’s gig. First it turned out that he had appeared a bit lame on stage at an obscure ball drinks party organized by a certain Willem Sijthoff. There he called Yesilgöz a liar and believed that the VVD should have been punished much more severely by the voters. Drunk people speak the truth.
He has now put on the sackcloth and on Thursday during a Wiedergutmachungspress conference he cowardly orated that he had not expressed himself properly. Even though he had done that. But now suddenly the VVD was a party that had effectively contributed to the governance of our country for years and Dilan was a party leader with a solid track record. I then thought: it’s time for Hans to start drinking again.
What I found most sad was poor Sybrand Buma who was shooting next to Hansje. The D66 informant had forgotten that there was an app buzzing somewhere in the cloud in which he called the fake street brat Dilan a shrew. The term ‘fake street brat’ comes from me and I am not going to take it back any time soon.
Now suddenly Dilan was a party leader with a solid track record. I then thought: it’s time for Hans to start drinking again
I think Yesilgöz was surprised by Wijers’ quick apology anyway. According to Dilan, an apology can easily wait a month. Or is that only if you have wrongly accused someone of hating Jews?
In the meantime, a certain Eric Smit has also reported that it was not Wijers, but that he used the word liar about Yesilgöz. Interesting. So Wijers almost called Dilan to take back his apology offered through the media because he heard afterwards that he had not said it. Such a phone call seems quite geriatric.
Beautiful chaos and I think the right is now laughing very hard at this endearing amateurism. Because we can really call Wijers the Gom van Strien of D66.
When I saw him stuttering on Thursday I thought: what do you want? Playing the savior? Play some kind of Savior of the Fatherland? Don’t you have friends who just tell you that you’ve done your best in life, but your time is up? Hardly anyone makes it at that age. Yes, Johan Derksen, but he knows that he has a not very smart audience.
But if you really don’t remember what you, as an informant, bleated into a microphone on a public evening a few weeks earlier, then it’s time for you to stop. With all public functions. Especially when you know that you were right then and now you have to rant like a cowardly Pharisee that you didn’t mean it.
And now? Now he only has one job left. A job he has done before. Commissioner at Ajax. As successor to Danny Blind, who leaves the sinking ship with relief. Job hunter Hans was once chairman of the board there.
I think it would be a beautiful image if Hans reports to the Johan Cruijff Arena next week and that all kinds of skyboxers have fallen up and are waiting for him. With a hearty round of applause, of course. The club yearns for real losers. What do they say when he enters the boardroom? Pleasant? Or the variant that has now been adapted to the club: great!
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