Serie A success the springboard for star after rocky start with fans and that could spell trouble for England
On the surface, this European Championship offers quite the advert for the happy coexistence of nations. Here in Cologne, there is a nightly clamour of Turkish expats leaning on their car horns to toast their team’s progress to the round of 16, and of Georgian fans drumming out rhythmic folk songs, barely able to believe they are in town for a knockout tie against Spain. And yet all this joy of life, this Lebenslust, masks sinister tensions. For 50 miles north in Essen, the far-Right Alternative
The winner could face England in the quarter-finals