The PSV-Ajax result on Sunday evening is food for gloating and funny pictures on social media. The people of Eindhoven are in first place, while the people of Amsterdam have dropped to last place. It is the first time in history that Ajax is at the bottom.
Immediately after the match, Mariska from textile printing company Me-Kado in Breda received a call asking if she could print the teletext page showing the standings on a shirt. She has already received eight orders on Monday morning, she says in the broadcast of WAKKER! on Omroep Brabant radio.
This interest did not come as a complete surprise to Mariska. Shirts with teletext page 819 on them have been a hit in Breda before. According to Mariska, this is how things went in the city when NAC was at the top of the Eredivisie for a while years ago. “I had already come up with that teletext page on a shirt myself,” she says, laughing.
Crafted photos
The results are also being raved about on the internet. Self-made photos of so-called funeral cards for Ajax appear on Instagram, Someone else jokes: “If FC Eindhoven is promoted, they won’t play against Ajax yet.”
The Amsterdam team was also made fun of in the stadium on Sunday. For example, a PSV supporter dressed up as a ‘relegation ghost’ to challenge the Ajax supporters in the adjacent section.