you could say we went down fighting.

even though we threw the lead away a while back, but that's another story, something that cannot be changed, we were given a lifeline somehow. going into the last game, we were three points behind psv. win, and if vitesse wins, we are champions.

we kept our part of the deal by thrashing heracles 5-1.

i guess right up till the final whistle in Arnhem, everyone at the Arena clung on to the belief that vitesse could pull it off.

but psv won 1-0.

the disappointment on the faces of the players who remained on the pitch after the final whistle was evident. and perhaps they had only themselves to blame for not killing off the game, so to say, when they led the league.

but the manner of the fightback, the manner in which we pushed psv all the way, with the help of the other teams to get a result off psv, was commendable.

heads up, because the season is not over. still that champs league place to play for, thanks to the funny dutch system in which the 2nd to 5th placed teams play each other in a mini-tournament to decide who gets that other champs league slot.

in any case, it is really time to stop the psv hegemony. 4 straight titles.

let's hope marco van basten can pull it off. and there will also be another familiar face.

welcome back, dennis bergkamp.