It wasn't supposed to be like this, in so many ways. The home country eliminated in the last throes of extra time, the supposed German efficiency rendered useless in the confusion and mayhem at the Dortmund hauptbahnof. Now there's simply no team left to cheer for, no need to hope that we might serendipitidously stumble our way into becoming ticketholders.
There we were, along with about 200,000 disappointed German fans, stuck in one huddled mass outside the police barracade blocking the entrances to the train station. Was it a bomb threat? The threat of hooliganism? Nope, just too many people trying to get in the station at one time. Apparently, there was no plan to handle the onrush of travellers (as opposed to revellers, if Germany won) just trying to get home and away from the berzerk Italians. The fear of trampelling was real, as was a riot, but it ended semi-gracefully with a putrid train ride. Carsten said it best: "Nobody was expecting this."
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I'm happy you didn't get trampelled!
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