It didn’t matter, pride prevailed anyway. The fact that ‘the Blues’ had reached the quarter finals in the KNVB Cup was already such a unique event and that they were also allowed to play against FC Utrecht in their own province: it couldn’t have been better. Even supporters of formidable opponent IJsselmeervogels (‘de Rooien’) thought it was nice, this commotion in the village.
FC Utrecht’s ‘road to Rotterdam’ ends in its own Galgenwaard: ‘Slips through your fingers’
