“Go the Blues, go the Blues!
Frédéric's voice pierces the relative silence specific to these crowded metro trains where everyone takes refuge in their thoughts, their bodies compressed by other travelers.
But this supporter of the Blues, who came from Perpignan with his wife Séverine, does not intend to wait for line 13 of the Paris metro to drop him off next to the Stade de France to start shouting.
"It's been three years since we came here because of the health crisis, so we fully intend to take advantage of it," enthuses the couple in their fifties.
Especially since for a comeback, we managed to get tickets for the Blacks.
They are not the only ones to have had the idea.
For the first time since the reception of England to launch the 2020 edition of the Six Nations Tournament, the Stade de France is sold out.
More than 79,000 people converged on the Dionysian precinct, and it shows.
Almost three hours before the kickoff of the shock, the surroundings of the Stade de France are black with people.
Sound and light, Léa Seydoux and Haka
Bars full, happy oddballs with flashing glasses or extravagant wigs and lines of supporters who meet around the accesses to the stadium, all the classics have come together.
Massive affluence requires, the FFR recommended that spectators come two hours before the start of hostilities so as not to miss the Haka and the first tackles.
Message rather understood: when part of the XV of France returns to the locker room at 8:20 pm, the stadium is already well stocked to accompany it by resuming "Take me" by Charles Aznavour.
It is armored when it comes time to shout the names of the players lined up by Fabien Galthié just before the sound and light show then the presentation of the Webb Ellis trophy, which will be awarded to the world champions in 2023, by the actress Léa Seydoux and the 'ex-All Black Jerome Kaino.
He ends up rocking into euphoria on a Marseillaise buckle a cappella and on a Haka contemplated in silence.
Giving us the desire to take us back in time until September 8, 2023, and this reunion with the All Blacks to launch this long-awaited World Cup.
