LIVERPOOL's 2-0 victory over PSV Eindhoven last night was a tale of two Dutchmen who have enjoyed varying degrees of fortune at Anfield.

Striker Dirk Kuyt has only been around the place for three months but already he's done far more for the Liverpool cause than compatriot Jan Kromkamp, now back home with PSV.

While it might be a sweeping statement about a nation of some 16million people, it's fair to say that the Dutch like to talk.

On the whole, they're well-known as liberal and articulate people and they're seldom short of an opinion.

While this makes for a good read for all of us - it also means that their big mouths sometimes get Dutch footballers into hot water.

That's exactly what happened to a certain Jan Kromkamp this week.

Despite being virtually anonymous for his entire eight-month stay at Liverpool, the PSV player was forced to spend the build-up to this game attempting to backtrack on comments supposedly claiming that his former side were over-reliant on long balls up to Peter Crouch.

How particularly choking it must have been for him to see Crouch nod in Liverpool's killer second goal then.

But no matter how much Kromkamp actually said was true, his contribution to the Liverpool cause was so unmemorable that many in the home crowd found it hard to summon up the energy to boo him on his return with voices of dissent few and far between.

Instead the Kop reserved its voice for hailing their new star from the Netherlands, Dirk Kuyt who in contrast to Kromkamp, was anything but anonymous.