THE HAGUE, April 8 — “You can always lose, but not like this”. Ajax captain Steven Bergwijn summed up the humiliation after yesterday’s 6-0 capitulation against arch-rivals Feyenoord that sent the Dutch giants to rock bottom.

It was a record margin of victory in a “Klassieker” between the two top Dutch teams, but the truth is it could have been more — a seventh was ruled out for offside.