Letter from Germany: mind the gap as creaking rail system delivers travel chaos for fans

The England supporter who fell asleep in his seat and woke to find himself locked in and abandoned at Arena AufSchalke got more rest than the 49,999 who’d left.

CHAOS: Fans gather on train station ahead the Euros match between Serbia and England in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. AP Photo/Markus Schreiber.

A soaking sideways Rhine-Ruhr rain was giving us a little palate teaser of what it’d be like if the Shetland Islands ever gets to host a Euros.

To be fair, those showers would prove to be a spritz compared to the biblical deluges which greeted Turkey and Georgia here 48 hours later.