“I was watching that match,” he recalls at Bureau Sport. “It’s just 1-1 and it was already a bit crazy: Pröpper was substituted, that is the captain, for Alec van Hoorenbeeck. He must be a nice boy, but that guy slips almost at the first touch of the ball. Pavlidis takes that ball and puts it in: 2-1 down, game lost,” said Dijkstra, who was bothered by the reactions after the game in Alkmaar.
“Afterwards you get an atmosphere like: ‘Can happen, nothing to worry about.’ But I just hate pears, you know that?! “Put on good shoes,” he continues irritably. “Just put on Adidas World Cups with screws on, no bullshit, man! In the past, no football player ever slipped, now that man slips like he’s being caught in a goddamn rain shower. It’s professional football, isn’t it? Then you can say to each other: ‘It can happen to the best of the best’, but come on, man, hey… I really have a hangover from that, you know that. That’s what you play an entire season for, ultimately,” Dijkstra explains.
“Twente will of course win the next match at home against Volendam, but then they have to go away against PEC Zwolle. They have lost a few times and are playing the last match in front of their own audience in Zwolle, where they don’t find FC Twente very nice either. club, so they are going to go all out. It will be exciting,” he warns. “You play an entire season for the Champions League preliminary round so that the Belgian (Van Hoorenbeeck, ed.) can slip in the sixtieth minute because he is wearing the wrong shoes. Well, thank you,” Dijkstra concludes, disappointed.
