“This summer, France will host Europe’s biggest international football tournament, and their fans will be quietly hopeful that their team will be able to repeat the heroics of 1998 and 2000, and deliver an international trophy. They might well have every reason to be expectant, France find themselves with arguably the best pool of players to choose from since that World Cup success in ‘98, and with the luck usually afforded to tournament hosts, it might just be their year.” backpagefootball