‘More than a game’: Euros delirium in Denmark despite UK travel setback
by Helen Russell in Jutland from on (#5KXSY)
Nation with Hans Christian Andersen-inspired football song is hoping for fairytale win against England
People dancing on buses is not something you see every day in Denmark. Rule-abiding Danes tend to keep their celebrations low-key - but not this summer.
Football fans brought traffic to a standstill in Aarhus after Denmark beat the Czech Republic in the Euro 2020 quarter-finals and even scaled public transport to broadcast their euphoria and belt out another round of Re-sepp-ten - first a hit for Denmark's national team at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. The anthem's crowd-sourced lyrics are laden with Hans Christian Andersen imagery and feel particularly apt this year.
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