i want to turn now to financial times columnist simon cooper in paris.was attending a soccer match at the stadium of france during the time of those attacks. thank you for joining us. simon, this is very much a healing process for so many people there in paris. of course, the band helping in that process. talk to us. you were there at that soccer match during the course of those dreadful attacks. what are your memories, and now how are things three months on? >> well, what i remember is 20 minutes into the soccer match, there was a loud blast from outside the stadium. people cheered and clapped thinking it was fireworks, smoke bomb. two minutes later, the ground shook. later we realized these were attempts by multiple suicide bombers to get into the stadium. i then went onto the internet, began looking for news, and soon realized that paris was really at war. you know, it was a night that we won't forget. the bataclan concert was something that will live in memory here for decades. and last night's concert by the eagles of death metal is a tiny, tiny ste