 The match had been moved from its normal site of Stade de France near Paris due to scheduling conflicts with France's hosting of UEFA Euro 2016.Thomas Hughes 1857 novel "Tom Brown's Schooldays", set at Rugby School, includes a rugby football match, also portrayed in the 1940s film of the same name.James Joyce mentions Irish team Bective Rangers in several of his works, including "Ulysses" (1922) and "Finnegans Wake" (1939), while his 1916 semi-autobiographical work "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" has an account of Ireland international James Magee.