No brown envelopes no
SportsJOE would never stoop so low as to try and buy a result in order for us to look good. No,we’re real men and we’ll take our defeat in the office Olympics at the desk chair sprint, or the waster-paper basketball as honestly as everyone else.
Unfortunatly not everyone in sport holds our moral compass and especially not PSV fans who tried to ensure of their Dutch Championship winning party this weekend wasn’t going to be spolied by their opponents Heerenveen.
The league leaders take on their Dutch rivals knowing the three points on offer would secure them the title ahead of Ajax this afternoon.
Two fans decided that in order to ‘sway’ their opponents to perhaps play with flipflops on instead of boots they offered a crate of beer to the team in advance of the game,
Volgens mij kunnen we 't niet echt stil meer houden @Steiner72 😉 pic.twitter.com/RvUzHauks5
— 𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓶 🕺🏻🚌 (@Harm040) April 17, 2015
The cheeky gag came about after Heerenveen midfielder Joey van den Berg joked earlier this week that it would only take 10 crates of beer to sway the result the way of PSV.
However Ajax,who can still claim the title if PSV fail to win, have now responded in classic fashion by organising a whole truck of Amstel beer to be delivered to the players ahead of the game
Sorry @PSV en @Bavaria, @Ajax kwam met een beter bod. #psvhee pic.twitter.com/n5hIzlxF90
— sc Heerenveen (@scHeerenveen) April 18, 2015
H/T to The Express