Derby NAC – Willem II finally stopped: beer and fireworks thrown on the field

1/2 Referee Jeroen Manschot blows the whistle (photo: Orange Pictures).

The match in the Kitchen Champion Division between NAC Breda and Willem II has been definitively stopped after objects were thrown on the field for the second time. The first time fireworks were thrown, the second time beer.

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The suspended match in the Kitchen Champion Division between NAC Breda and Willem II will in principle be played at a later time, as much as possible under the same conditions as Friday evening.

However, the KNVB professional football league board can also decide that the current score (0-1) will also be the final score or that the match must be replayed in its entirety.

Looked up changing rooms twice
Referee Jeroen Manschot sent the players to the dressing rooms for the first time after about 70 minutes, after a piece of fireworks was thrown onto the field from the stands.

Waiting for privacy settings…

After a few minutes’ break, the players returned to the field. When Willem II scored fifteen minutes before the end via Elton Kabangu, glasses of beer were also thrown at the partying players from Tilburg from the same section where the fireworks came from.

Manschot immediately blew off and gestured that the players had to leave the field again, this time permanently. He thus followed the rules that the KNVB tightened last week after the events in De Kuip at Feyenoord – Ajax.

Fireworks on field
When the players arrived, smoke pots were set off in the club colors of NAC, yellow and black. Many pieces of smoldering fireworks also ended up on the field before the start of the match and had to be cleared away. As a result, the game had to start later.

Waiting for privacy settings…

Fireworks on the field in the Rat Verlegh Stadium during the derby (photo: Orange Pictures).
Fireworks on the field in the Rat Verlegh Stadium during the derby (photo: Orange Pictures).

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