Tuesday 17 April 2018

 a very warn welcome from enschede, in the east of the netherlands, for game one of my ground hopping tour of holland and germany for eire divissie dutch top flight, fc twente, rock bottom vs near neighbours pec zwolle, aprox 50 miles apart. 

steeve mclaren famously guided twente to the  most glorious passage in their history to date by by winning the dutch championship in 2010, and going on to have success in europe thereafter. 

he also rather infamously tried to effect a ludicrous attempt at a dutch accent whilst here during a legendary press conference in 2008. 

worth a check out on youtube if you get the chance. 

tonight's opponents all to play for as in 6th and battling for european qualification next term. 

more like cricket weather than football, 20 degrees and glorious sunshine. 

i will be on the hunt for some cricket action whilst here too.

ft from last night's action.

and a 2 nil win for twente.

they made a barnstorming start and raced into a 2 nil lead within half an hour and only a cracking save from the zwolle keeper kept them in it. 

2nd half twente sat on their lead and claimed a vital win. 

but with only 2 games to play for twente, the best they can hope for is to be involved in the relegation play off with the teams from division below to be in with a chance of staying safe. 

more importantly, i've just passed a cricket ground en route to my next destination. 

crowd 24900.

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