The French victory bus ahead of the final (Twitter)

Ahead of last night’s Euro 2016 final a victory parade bus ready to carry the French team around the streets of Paris was spotted making its way to the French capital.

The video of the bus, adorned with ‘CHAMPIONS D’EUROPE’ and ‘MERCI’, led to accusations of over confidence by the hosts – a criticism that now seems only fair following their 1-0 extra-time defeat to Portugal.

The footage of the empty bus – driving along a non-descript road under grey skies – now seems nothing but horribly depressing following last night’s dire game.

https://twitter.com/HugoLgrnd/status/752097878424911874/


And even more so when contrasted with Portugal who today have been celebrating on their own bus around the streets of Lisbon.

The Portugal players aboard their victory parade bus (Getty)

As they say (sort of), you wait ages for a bus and then you lose the final of Euro 2016.