Racine left the ground […] deafened, dazzled and tired to death.

Luca's father, Americo Campanaro, said: I feel like my heart has been ripped out. Mr Campanaro added: He was a big lad, a big unit, that's why he was a goalkeeper, with a big heart to match. A gentle giant.

‘They're all pro-German. We should shoot the leaders, pack the rest off to France. In my opinion, there is too much kid-gloving in this country.’

It was healthy and magnificient because one room, above a mews, somewhere near the river, contained fifty excited, talkative, friendly people.