Back in the days before naming rights tore into German football, they called Eintracht Frankfurt’s home the Waldstadion, literally forest stadium, due to its setting in an area of woodland outside the city.
The path to the 100-year-old sporting venue, now completely modernised and rebranded Deutsche Bank Park, still involves a stroll through the trees and, on the eve of Tottenham’s Europa League quarter-final created a shady idyll at odds with the do-or-die nature of the tie.
When the beer starts flowing and the grills are lit and the mood lurches towards hostility tonight, there will be no mistaking what is at stake for Spurs against the Europa League winners of 2022.