…from the Frog and Rosbif pub in the heart of lovely, sunny Paris.

We thought that we should bring a bit of European culture to our English pages, so we drew straws, and here I am in Paris, Meant to be live-blogging the France Quarter Final. As we all know, things didn’t quite go as expected for Les Bleus, so the Frog and Rosbif (Paris’s premier English pub) gets our custom this evening. Hopefully some Italians and Spaniards will wander in and make the place jump, but it’s already pretty lively.

Look for more in a bit, but fo now I’ll pass over to ‘Short Straw’ Jack.