George Hamilton

This World Cup, Le Mondial, pourquoi?

And a general shrug to the shoulders at what... We don't... I mean, there was no big-time Paris Saint-Germain at the time, bear in mind.

Marseille was a big team.

Saint-Étienne had been a big team.

Paris, no.

until France started to look like they might go somewhere, and it picked up a momentum all its own.

So by the time the final came around, it was crazy, absolutely crazy.

And we went out after the final, we went to dinner in a lovely restaurant called Le Boeuf sur le Toit, the bull on the roof.

And we had a lovely dinner.

We'd booked it weeks in advance because we knew it would be difficult after the match to...

And after we had our dinner, we emerged about, what, one in the morning?

And it was nuts.

Paris, you couldn't move for people.

It was just crazy.

And the metro had stopped.

You'd think they might have kept the metro going all night, but no, no, the metro had stopped.

And there were people sleeping in the doorway of the metro stations because the gates were across.

And the Champs-Élysées, you could hardly walk down it for the people that there were.

There was certainly no vehicular traffic.

And, of course, to get a taxi.