There are just 100 days to go before the 2016 European Championships kicks off in France, but here in cold grey Paris you wouldn't know it.
The French have fallen out of love with their football team, and barely an advertising poster in the metro reminds you of the approaching tournament.
Many French people find it hard right now to think of anything except terrorism. In the absence of any hype, here are five modest hopes for Euro 2016:
1. A Cinderella story
Small teams hardly ever win anything in club soccer anymore. So dominant have the big boys got, that we have been reduced to treating Leicester City -- the 24th richest soccer club on earth -- as a Cinderella.