Dutch Football - UEFA CUp - No Feyenoord fans to Nancy

"The intellectualisation
of football has
always foundered
on a simple problem-
-the players. Doing
all your most
rewarding thinking
with your feet seems
to dull the philo-
sophical impulse.
Unless, of course,
you are Dutch.
According to legend,
Europeans played
a moronic, muscular
version of the world's
game, until Holland
proclaimed its vision
of total football in the
1974 World Cup,
and enlightenment
dawned."

From:
Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football

No Feyenoord fans to Nancy

Wednesday 08 October 2008

Feyenoord will not allow any of it's fans to travel to the club's UEFA Cup match against AS Nancy.

The club's management wants to rule out any possible riots and for that reason they will not request any tickets for sale to the fans.

Feyenoord have decided to take the measure because of fans misbehaving badly when Feyenoord played in Nancy on 30 November 2006.

As a consequence Feyenoord were banned from the tournament for a year.

Onno Jacobs, financial director of Feyenoord, emphasizes that the club would rather be safe than sorry: "We don't expect the troublemakers of 2006 to travel to Nancy this time, but it's only logical that people in France are anxious. Every tiny incident could lead to a tensed reaction, with possibly serious consequences. We can not run that risk. The future of Feyenoord is more important than this one game."