New campaign will define Trap’s tenure
Of course, Paris was one of those sporting events which, for reasons still too painful to revisit in detail, had an unusually extended shelf life.
Yet, despite the sense that we’re still in recovery from November’s events in the Stade de France, a lot has actually changed in the big world of football since the boys in green last kicked a ball in anger, not least the collapse in status of former superpowers France and Italy on the back of their almost comically woeful misadventures in South Africa.