Berlin is united by football. Cologne is united by football. Dortmund is… you get the idea.
“United by football” has been Germany’s tagline for Euro 2024 since the country announced its bid to stage the tournament in 2017. And, for the vast majority of fans in Germany, it works.
But there are some supporters here for whom that tagline is impossible. At best, it is vacuous marketing speak. At worst, it is an insult, a “look at what you could have won” joke played on one troubled corner of Europe by the rest of the continent.
Of course, we should all be united by something as inconsequential but life-affirming as football — or…
