Everything glitters in Monaco apart from the Stade Louis II, a most sterile arena of various neutral shades with its notoriously poor pitch laid on top of a basketball court.
This vision of beige by the Med is capable of holding only 18,000 and yet was not close to capacity despite the exciting young team which plays its home games here and has advanced into the last 16 of the Champions League.
It is unique and bizarre, built to accommodate football and everything else besides from fencing to judo, and a stadium as different to Wembley as you might care to imagine.