The bizarre promotion match between RKC Waalwijk and Go Ahead Eagles still has an impact on the players exactly one year later. Go Ahead was a few seconds away from promotion to the Eredivisie, when Stijn Spierings shot 4-4 on behalf of RKC. The Waalwijkers eventually won 4-5.
“I whimpered like a baby and lay on the field for minutes”, then Go Ahead midfielder Richard van der Venne looks into the Brabants Dagblad back that afternoon. “It is something that has bothered me all summer. When we first played a league game in the Adelaarshorst I thought: we will play in this division again for a year, when we should have been in the Eredivisie. I should have been there so much pain. I had never felt it before and hope to never feel it again. “
Van de Venne has a hard time looking back at the images. “There was so much wrong in advance, I counted it again later. We were able to shoot or head that ball six or seven times, but it was all just not,” said the midfielder, who made the switch last winter to RKC Waalwijk. “Otherwise I might have just played at Go Ahead. The last five seconds made my whole life look different.”
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