The Heerenveen Courier
Match16 Jan 2027
A hiding for Heerenveen
Beaten 0‑3 by Feyenoord, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Match16 Jan 2027
The wait goes on for Heerenveen
8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Guus Til in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Heerenveen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Heerenveen training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jacob Trenskow is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Ringo Meerveld was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Dirk Proper
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Luuk Bergwijn faces the questions
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Luuk Bergwijn after 0‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Marko Farji wants out of the dugout
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Heerenveen will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Bookings catch up with Maas Willemsen
One yellow too many, and a match watched from the stand. The most avoidable absence in football, and Heerenveen will feel it on Saturday.
In brief
- The dugout Maas Willemsen asks for a word with the manager
- Market The Jacob Trenskow question follows Heerenveen around
- The dugout The plan did not have a place for Luca Oyen