It was my first time meeting him properly and I thought he was going to be relaxed, but he was on the floor, rolling around, screaming with passion at every point. All the guys who said something when I was away stayed quiet. We could order what we wanted: chicken wings, carbonara with loads of sauce, french fries, whatever.”Bassett was not the only obstacle for Van Hooijdonk. Pierre van Hooijdonk was a star at Parkhead in the late ’90s (Allsport UK via Getty Images) And in an exclusive interview with the Guardian , van Hooijdonk explained why he left as well as how the quality at Parkhead changed over time. He was funny, warm, even if his tactical approach was the same as Dave Bassett’s. He made his 7.5 million dollar fortune with Feyenoord, Fenerbache & Dutch national team. I got some trouble from Rangers fans; once at some traffic lights a boy opened my car door and spat at me. A … Pierre van Hooijdonk: ‘I told Ron Atkinson he was a pub manager’Pierre van Hooijdonk: ‘I told Ron Atkinson he was a pub manager’ Paolo Di Canio and Jorge Cadete would later join to form a frontline known as the Three Amigos.“When I arrived at Celtic in 1994 I was not impressed with the quality,” Van Hooijdonk says. He is still besotted by football and easy to talk to: about how he spent his pocket money as a kid on hiring a sports hall because it had a goal with a net, or about Harry Kane, or his 19-year-old son, Sydney van Hooijdonk, a striker for his hometown club, NAC Breda.Articulate and passionate, it is perhaps unsurprising he works as a TV pundit in the Netherlands. Pierre van Hooijdonk (Steenbergen, 1969. november 29.

Looking for some great streaming picks? At 49, Pierre van Hooijdonk is a respected TV pundit in Holland and still plays 11-a-side for a local side.

I became top scorer but he never offered me the same money as the others.

“McCann said if I did well he would raise my salary.

He has … Pierre van Hooijdonk was born on November 29, 1969 in Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands as Petrus Ferdinandus Johannes van Hooijdonk. We would do drills where the goalkeeper, Dave Beasant, was playing up front. Some players publicly made their feelings known about the Dutchman, and in one game “When I returned that November, I called a meeting with the players in the dressing room, explained the reasons I stayed away in bullet-point form and asked if anyone had any questions. He eventually left for Vitesse Arnhem in the summer of 1999 for £3.5m.He had arrived at Forest from Celtic, with his spell in Glasgow also controversial. Pierre van Hooijdonk (born 29 November 1969) is a former Dutch football player. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Manager : www.playersunited.com “But when Andreas Thom joined, then Jorge and Paolo, the difference in level was unbelievable.
Ron was a people person and I can imagine him doing better with the right group of players. I said to him after training that he should come to my house to watch. The Dutchman’s accent and intonation, however, are spot on as we discuss his final few months under Atkinson at “Later that afternoon, Ron called me at home to come and see him in his office. It is genuinely funny as, in the lobby of an Amsterdam hotel, he tries in vain to collapse his 6ft 4in frame into something resembling Big Ron. Speaking to Dutch newspaper AD, van Hooijdonk picked a team comprised of players he's … Pierre van Hooijdonk On 29-11-1969 Pierre van Hooijdonk (nickname: Pi-Air) was born in Steenbergen, Netherlands.

I’m a man of my word.”Van Hooijdonk’s goal record is astonishing: 335 in 551 games, including at least a goal every other game for seven clubs between 1991 and 2005. That was their time to say something, face to face. Only one person, Geoff Thomas, said he didn’t agree with me. Then, on a Friday, he would turn up. His pinnacle was the Uefa Cup triumph with an unfancied Feyenoord in 2002, alongside a young Robin van Persie. Játszott többek között skót, angol, török, és elsősorban holland csapatokban. And all the players were pissing themselves when he got into the It proved a rare moment of lightness in a turbulent time for Forest and Van Hooijdonk, who had fired the club to the 1997-98 First Division title the previous season with 34 goals, scored at the World Cup for the “The thing that started all that was after the World Cup Newcastle and Ruud Gullit came in with a £7m bid, twice what Forest had paid,” Van Hooijdonk says. Andreas at the time was smoking cigarettes and so was my wife, so he felt safe at my home.

The Dutch striker on his time at Nottingham Forest, Celtic and returning to Glasgow to pay tribute to Fernando RicksenPierre van Hooijdonk does a very good Ron Atkinson impression. A couple more games are left, you can leave after that, just give your best.’“We laughed it off. Pierre van Hooijonk has named four former Celtic players in his all-time XI.

It was a great partnership.“John Collins had taken me to his home for dinner when I had joined, so when the other foreigners arrived I did the same. Paolo was a funny guy – he once called a team meeting because Andreas had not passed the ball to him.”Di Canio, Cadete and Van Hooijdonk would all leave Celtic in acrimony, with the Dutchman falling out with the chairman, Fergus McCann, over a new contract, declaring Celtic’s offer of £7,000 a week was “enough for the homeless but not for an international striker” in 1996.“Our best players were on five‑figure sums per week and I was not,” Van Hooijdonk says.
In 1998, that’s like putting a price tag on a bottle of water and asking for £25. He was the club’s best striker since Stan Collymore and Teddy Sheringham, a two-footed, world-class set-piece specialist, and did not look out of place alongside Dennis Bergkamp and Patrick Kluivert in an orange shirt. If I went to a concert, I would take a taxi and crouch down in the back seat as we went past the pubs. We played five-a-side most of the time. Pierre van Hooijdonk was born on November 29, 1969 in Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands as Petrus Ferdinandus Johannes van Hooijdonk. Van Hooijdonk is withering in his assessment of the former Wimbledon manager.“Bassett’s training was primitive.

It sucked the energy out of me.“I was single for six months there but didn’t go out because I had to be careful.

“But Bassett told the papers my price was £10m. Bassett wasn’t there most of the time. Officially it’s for sale but it’s not for sale.”Van Hooijdonk would not play in the first team until November, eventually reintegrated by a now‑desperate Bassett, who would be sacked and replaced by Atkinson two months later.