The madness of ‘catch-up games’ in the Netherlands: Ajax and NEC have to travel for hours to play five and six (!) minutes of football

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Six more minutes of football plus some injury time in Waalwijk. In Alkmaar even less: five minutes plus fifteen seconds to be precise. Yet Wednesday is considered ‘a complete match day’ for RKC (against Ajax) and AZ (against NEC), with the usual army of stewards, security guards, catering staff and traffic controllers being called in.

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