The club from Venhuizen can’t laugh about it and files a complaint with the KNVB. He in turn informs Smit that the union never again a profession does on him. “They didn’t even ask for my side of the story, nothing at all. It’s a shame,” Smit says now. “De Valken had nothing to complain about at all, because there was nothing to criticize on all those cards. And neither did the duration of injury time. I could easily have added another five minutes.”
The singing referee is world news
When images of a singing and partying referee leak, Smit quickly leaves viral. Dutch and foreign newspapers cover the news, he can be heard on Radio 538 and seen on Hart van Nederland. The singing referee is world news: “I have seen videos from Mexico.”Arbitro Smith‘, they call me there. That sounds good,” he smiles.
A weekend after the incident in Spierdijk, Smit’s life suddenly looks very different. The players of De Valken 4 have invited him to perform at a fair. The Freek de Jonge classic ‘Life after death’ is soon renamed ‘four times red’. And so it sounds in the the lion’s den: “There is life, there is life after four red lights”