Two second-half goals by Michel Platini gave France a victory that was earned in midfield where they were always a thought and a deed ahead of an experimental England side for whom Luton partners Brian Stein and Paul Walsh failed to find their club form. France went on to win the European championship in the summer, so there was no disgrace for the England team. The disgrace came off the pitch where hooligans among England's followers again ran riot. Hooliganism had become known as 'the English disease.' When manager at Ipswich, Bobby Robson had landed himself in trouble by saying that the way to deal with hooligans was 'to turn a flamethrower on them.' Asked what he thought of the hooligans who had poisoned the atmosphere in Paris, he shrugged and said: 'You know my feelings. I honestly do not know what the solution is, but I do know it needs to be sorted out before there is a terrible tragedy.' The Heysel Stadium disaster was just over a year away.

Source Notes

TheFA.com
FFF.fr
Allezlesbleus.free.fr
Original newspaper reports
Rothman's Yearbooks
Mike Payne's England: The Complete Post-War Record (Breedon Books Publishing Company, Derby, U.K., 1993)
Norman Giller, Football Author
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