Gavin Cooney reports from Germany.
Gavin Cooney reports from Germany RORY MCILROY HAS just contrived to lose the US Open and the journalists in the Gelsenkirchen media centre can no longer ignore the outside world and so we must plot a way home.
And so we set out to walk the 7km back, only to find the tram queues have finally dwindled and we squeeze onto a carriage in which we all hear the beery-breathed soundtrack to the tournament so far.Euro 2024 is proving to be one of the great national myth-shattering events of the century, with fans realising that the German train service – the Deutsche Bahn – is on the verge of collapse.
It took fans almost three hours to make the 7km journey back to town, where they were met by chaos at central station. Fans rushed from platform to platform like a game of Super Mario, looking for the right train in the absence of anyone trying to help. Then came the mass crowding of the platform and the surge onto the train, which was distressing for kids in particular.
This is partly a psychological overhang from the insane inflation of the Weimar Republic, when the decision to print money caused an inflationary spiral that is hard to comprehend. To take one completely mad example given by the historian Neil MacGregor: by the end of 1918, the cost of an egg was five hundred thousand million times more than it had been at the start of the year.Kylian Mbappe’s isn’t the only nose out of joint in the Rhineland.
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