Quotes About Groningen

After my debut as a pro for Groningen, I was at Eindhoven for two years.

The Groningen gas field in northern Holland, discovered in 1959, was the biggest domestic source of gas within Europe, and the foundation on which the original European gas system had been built. It still ranks among the top ten gas fields in the world. But its days are numbered. Owing to its particular geology, production over many years has led to subsidence, sinking of the topsoil, which has triggered tremors and earthquakes, causing cracks and damage in houses.

The major market for LNG in Britain and in Europe largely evaporated with the discovery of the huge Groningen natural gas field in the Netherlands and then additional gas in North Africa and in the seabed off the east coast of Britain.

When I was at Liverpool, I asked about Van Dijk when he was at Groningen and then at Celtic. But I was told he wouldn't be for us at the time. Van Dijk could have jumped from Celtic to a Liverpool.