Normally there are a few hundred people in the stands of the Utrecht football club Hercules every week. But next Thursday there will suddenly be many more eyes on the club from the third division, because Ajax – that other Dutch club with a name from Greek mythology – will come to visit. For anyone who would like to join the conversation at the coffee machine, but doesn’t know much about one of the oldest football clubs in the Netherlands: a crash course in ‘Hercules DNA’ from sports reporter Arnold Schenk, who knows Hercules inside and out.
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