The time was nearly 10pm in the tiny Faroese town of Klaksvik, and the light was starting to fade beside the fjord, as hundreds lined the streets to welcome home their heroes.
A day earlier, Klaksvikar Itrottarfelag - Klaksvik Sports Club, commonly known as KI - had won 3-0 at Ferencvaros in the first qualifying round of the Champions League, eliminating the Hungarians, to register arguably the finest club result in the history of the Faroe Islands. Now, after arriving back at Vagar Airport, on one of the most westerly of the Danish colony's 18 islands, the team bus had travelled an hour east, nearly the entire breadth of the Faroes, navigating the various tunnels that cross its waterways, to make it back home.
