Shopping for a scarf

Bananas asked me if i could get him a scarf of the local club of my hometown Haarlem. This weekend i tried to find one. There is one store downtown that has three core bussinesses: tobacco, porn and football pharaphernalia. I thought i had a good chance there.

I was wrong. The shopkeeper could sell me loads of stuff regarding Ajax, Feyenoord, Barcelona and even a very small Brazillian shirt. But anything related to H.F.C Haarlem was not available. I guess you can't make any money with it.

When you are located only 20 kilometers from the sexiest club in the Netherlands, it is kind of hard to get a large fanbase. Even if the club ended on a very respectable sixth place last season and battled in the playoffs for promotion. The last time the club was champion of the eredivisie was in the year 1946 i believe. The club did that with the magnificent striker Kick Smit. In the last three decades, Haarlem nurtured great players like Ruud Gullit, Arthur Numan and Barry van Galen.

So there must be a shopkeeper somewhere here in Haarlem, who is still proud enough of our local hero's, to sell some nice Haarlem gear.

Don't you worry Bananas, i'll get you that scarf.