FC Utrecht News
2011-12-08 13:58:16Mark of honour for David di Tommaso
4 December 2011
Before the home match against FC Twente FC Utrecht honoured David di Tommaso Sunday afternoon. Last Tuesday November 29 it was six years ago that the beloved French player died totally unexpectedly at the age of 26.
‘Emotion can never lead to violence’
5 December 2011
‘I do not count the hooligans that misbehavedoutside the stadium last Sunday, as FC Utrecht fans’, Wilco van Schaik, FC Utrecht’s managing director said, during a press conference a day after the match against FC Twente. ’As a club we strongly disapprove violence. We do regret that the fans showed their disappointment and their outrage in this way’, Van Schaik said.
Van Schaik explained that isolation of the visitors section was the best thing to do at that momentgiven what was happening in and outside the stadium. Besides Van Schaik the mayor Aleid Wolfsen, the Utrecht police chief Jan van Renswoude and the public prosecutor Susanne Terporten were present at the press conference.
Terporten announced a large criminal investigation. Wolfsen and Van Renswoude pointed out that they strongly disapproved the events of Sunday. The mayor said that it was the right decision to stop the match. Police chief Van Renswoude mentioned that eight of his people were injured last Sunday.
Measures
Van Schaik said that in consultation with the authorities measures would be taken against those who discredit the club. Together with the KNVB and the clubs, FC Utrecht want to take action on a clear, zero tolerance way, so that behaviour like that seen the last two times by fans from the visiting teams in the stadium.
‘I hope to get confidence from all the well willing people – fortunately about 99% of our fans – to develop the club to the beautiful club we want to become and stay”, van Schaik said. ”This means, positively passionate. We will do anything to make our stadium, like the last years, one of the safest stadiums in Holland.'
Reaction supporters association FC Utrecht
Hans van Maanen, the chairman of the supporters association FC Utrecht, says that the source of the problems was with the FC Twente fans, in the stand for the away team. The chairman disapproves the behaviour after the match outside the stadium.Van Maanen and Wilco van Schaik went outside just after the disturbances started to try to control the situation.
