Scotland fans left fuming over accommodation ‘out of horror film’

The four men travelled on Saturday to the district of Düren, west of Cologne, where Scotland will play Switzerland on Wednesday in their second Euros group game after a calamitous opening 5-1 defeat to Germany on Friday.

After arriving at their booked apartment around 20:00, Mr Bradley, 28, said the property was “just an absolute disaster”.

“As soon as we opened the door, there was a mould patch in the bottom left of the wall,” he told BBC Scotland’s Drivetime programme.

“We turned the corner into the room and one of the beds was made out of cardboard. It was held together with duct tape. The other one was a sofa bed which was falling apart and mouldy, dusty and dirty. We thought ‘we can’t stay here’.”

They called booking.com, one of the largest online travel agencies, and spent three hours speaking to three different advisers.

“People we spoke to initially were trying to help us and find us a place,” Mr Bradley said.

Around midnight they were eventually told the company had found them another property on the other side of Düren.

“The one we were going to wasn’t online but by that stage we thought, ‘we’ll take anything’,” he said. “We were just desperate for a bed at that point because it had been a long travel day and we needed to get somewhere to sleep.”