The toast of the Eerste Divisie. Incapable of competing in top-flight Dutch football, conference play, or even MLS 4. An embarrassment to Flemish-speakers everywhere.
My wife left me, I got fired from my job, my car broke down, and my children won't talk to me but at least I'm not AFC Ajax!
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)