AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – The top three places in the Dutch first division remained unchanged after matches involving Ajax, PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord were postponed due to a police strike.
Feyenoord had been scheduled to play AZ on Saturday, with first-place Ajax hosting second-place PSV on Sunday.
Ajax still leads with 31 points, PSV has 30 and Feyenoord and SC Heerenveen have 29.
Heerenveen easily beat NAC Breda 5-1 Saturday with two goals each from Gerald Sibon and Paulo Henrique. Also Saturday, it was: FC Twente 1, VVV Venlo 1; and De Graafschap 1, NEC Nijmegen 1.
On Sunday, FC Utrecht beat Heracles Almelo 3-1 and Vitesse defeated Excelsior Rotterdam 3-0 with two goals from Santi Kolk. It was Vitesse’s first win in six games. FC Groningen beat Willem II 1-0 in the day’s other match.
Sparta Rotterdam beat Roda JC Kerkrade 3-2 on Friday.
The two postponed matches have not yet been rescheduled, and the police strike is set to continue.
Henk Kesler, chief of the Dutch soccer association, called striking police "spoiled brats" for seeking pay raises of up to 15 per cent.
Police demanded an apology.
"Let (Kesler) come down and stand in the ranks when there are rocks flying," police spokesman Wiep van der Pal told Dutch press agency ANP.
Source: NED: Games postponed to police strike
