Football politics in France: From there to here

It is 11am on the evening of July 12 1998. France have just beaten Brazil 3-0 to win the World Cup, and an entire city is going crazy.

More than a million people flood the Champs Elysees. Hundreds of thousands are dancing in the streets, men and women, young and old, black and white. Paris is a whirlpool of delight at the centre of a tide of euphoria that sweeps the country.

A vast image of Zinedine Zidane is projected on the Arc de Triomphe. Above it, along the top of the arch, the message “Merci Zizou” flashes through the night. In among the thousands of tricolors can be seen Algerian flags waving in homage to the two-goal hero and his immigrant roots.