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Even some of those sides for whom international tournament football is a novelty ought to have shocked. Supporters travelling with Iceland, for example, are known to have been concerned about a lack of segregation in stadia and glitches involving ticketing and logistics. Then there was security incidents where a fan was allowed to run the length of the Parc des Princes pitch to demand a selfie with Ronaldo.

Something more sinister has also stirred. The expansion of the tournament to 24 teams seems to have both increased the possibilities offered by hands-across-borders-style moments of international bonding and, conversely, a backdrop for the tensions currently playing out across the continent.

Outside the stadia this ragged ambiance has shown itself in all sorts of ways from the edgy riot police in Marseille and Lille, to the lack of any sort of concession to a major sporting event being held on the street of the capital. In the small merchandising outlets erected in major train stations, heaps of official keepsakes so far remain untouched.

Things may change as the tournament progresses especially if the French squad, already mildly discombobulated by a needless run-in with the media over Paul Pogba, clicks into gear. History shows that at the 1998 World Cup the population swung behind the team and the tournament merely as it reached the business end.

The format and the football have not helped. To what extent the former beget the latter will continue to be debated and may become a moot point if the tournament takes flight in the knockout stages. The group stage, however, has yielded the lowest average objectives per game figure( 1.92) since 1992 and delivered few genuinely memorable matches.

As many predicted, the thrill of the qualifying stages in delivering new sides to the top table has not been matched by the feast itself, with a fortnight and 36 matches devoted to getting rid of only a third of those in the competition.

As was the case with the 24 -team World Cup the format is cumbersome and flies in the face of natural justice, with some sides knowing exactly what they needed to do to go through and others flying blind.

While in Brazil two years ago an outbreak of adventurous assaulting football featuring a fresh batch of stars helped to newspaper over some of the organisational fissures, in France some of specific actions on the pitching has been as drab as the climate as the bigger nations have tried to keep their powder dry for the knockout stages and in one or two cases come unstuck.

It also seems inevitable that those opening troubling days in Marseille will leave a huge stain. At some distance it now is very clear that the antisocial and boorish behaviour of some England fans over three days should not be conflated with the organised violence that followed from a semi-official gang of Russian hooligans.

Yet nor should that excuse or result us to gloss over that behaviour. Most depressingly, it appears to have begat a new generation of England fans who believe that aggressive occupation of host cities is the way to follow their team.

As for Russia, the overlaps between far-right politics, organised hooliganism, its official travelling supporters club and the Kremlin are too troubling to ignore before the 2018 World Cup tournament. Somewhere in that toxic brew is a troubling oman of what is to come.

And yet there has, of course, been a flipside. The adrenaline hurry-up of international matches coming thick and fast has helped to hide some of the problems. There have been some stunning objectives and some players that have suggested they can take the competitor by the scruff of the neck, not least Dimitri Payet and Gareth Bale.

The sheer volume of football can be intoxicating and the atmosphere inside stadia has generally been good. The Russians have gone home, hopefully taking the worst excesses of national minorities of their fanbase with them.

Away from the sodden north, the Northern Ireland and Wales fans ought to have having a ball. In Paris, Republic of Ireland advocates have stimulated friends and some cheer with their relentless acts of random kindness. Noisy and passionate fans from Iceland, Slovakia and elsewhere have joined the party.

A French barkeeper was quoted in Lquipe as saying that the Irish fans from north and south had given Parisians something to smile about after a relentlessly grim seven months. The sentiment was heartfelt, though no doubt the influx had been good for takings too.

With the distressing and troubling events of Marseille and Lille behind them, the vast majority of England fans were able to at the least run some route to redressing the balance by delivering what Martin Glenn, the Football Association chief executive, called the best atmosphere he had witnessed at an England game in Saint-tienne.

Adrian Tempany noted in his excellent recent book, And the Sun Shine Now, that Euro 96 was the first football tournament of the self-aware media age, with face-painted fans playing up to the cameras and watching themselves on the big screens.

Social media and the ubiquity of camera phones has taken that is something that another level from harmless, all-inclusive mass singalongs to the deeply disturbing footage of the trouble in Marseille. This is fandom as performance.

As the final round of a group matches depicted to a close amid a flurry of mathematical computations and frantic logistical arrangements for fans, the weather took a turn for the better.

Iceland and Northern Ireland continued their fairytales, the former with a last-minute winner that elicited delirium. Portugal and Hungary played out a ding-dong freewheeling 3-3 draw and the Republic of Ireland secured a last-ditch win( late aims being another feature of this tournament) to send their fans wild in Lille.