Johan Derksen has a clear opinion on Van Bommel's foul on Bouwman

Johan Derksen believes Ruben van Bommel was rightly not sent off for the heavy collision with Aaron Bouwman during Ajax v PSV. In fact, Derksen says it was not even a foul. He made that case on Greetings from Grolloo. "This week I was quite irritated and astonished by the hysterical stories that emerged about the collision between PSV player Van Bommel and Ajax's Bouwman," Derksen begins in the podcast. "The whole of the Netherlands is saying it was a red card." "I even saw terms like 'attempted murder'. People were talking about it as a disgrace and everyone was outraged. But I thought it was not even a yellow card. It was a typical collision that occurs in a contact sport." "Both players were focused on the ball, deliberately went for the ball and met each other in midfield entirely by chance and could no longer avoid one another. Nobody was to blame. It was very unpleasant to watch, but you cannot blame Van Bommel for it at all, because he did not see that player. And Bouwman did not see him. That happens in football." For Derksen, Van Bommel only saw Bouwman at the very last moment. "And then he turned his shoulder into it to protect himself. And Bouwman did not see him coming at all." "It is very sad and it also looked very bad, but it was not a foul. It was an accidental collision that occurs in every contact sport. That referee, Van der Eijk, made an excellent decision." He also took aim at the referees' chief from Zeist. "Then I think it is a bit cheap that the referees' chief from Zeist had a big piece in De Telegraaf this morning saying that it was a red card and that it was actually a major mistake by that referee. That is not true. Only laymen come to that conclusion. If you have played football yourself, you understand how something like that can happen. In the whole situation I could not discover a single foul," Derksen concludes. This article first appeared on Goal.com and was syndicated with permission.