The fan scenes of Europa League 2021/22 reached a level of collective frenzy that even seasoned football romantics could only admire in astonishment. Barcelona, West Ham, Seville — and everywhere Frankfurt fans took over entire cities. At Camp Nou, tens of thousands of Eintracht supporters effectively turned a supposedly impossible away tie into a home match.
It was one of the most absurd and glorious away-support invasions European football has seen in the twenty-first century.