After the game was temporarily halted, the players returned to the field after more than half an hour. Including Klaassen, who had to stop fighting not much later. “I actually didn’t feel like it anymore, but you don’t want to run away either, because then they have you.” declared the Ajax player.
At Ajax ‘everyone agreed on that’, coach John Heitinga said afterwards. Not everyone was happy about that. If it had been up to the ACP police union the game was permanently abandoned. “They should have drawn a line. You cannot and should not reward this kind of behaviour. Incomprehensible,” said a spokesperson.