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England 10
France 53
REIGNING SIX NATIONS champions France inflicted England’s heaviest home defeat of all time with a crushing 53-10 win at Twickenham on Saturday.
An utterly dominant France ended their 18-year wait for a Six Nations success at Twickenham by running in seven tries.
Thibault Flament, Charles Ollivon and Damien Penaud all crossed England’s line twice after Thomas Ramos, who scored 23 points in all, went over for the opening five-pointer.
It was England’s greatest loss on home soil, surpassing their 42-6 defeat by South Africa at Twickenham in 2008.
It was also their third worst anywhere after a 76-0 hammering by Australia in Brisbane in 1998 and a 2007 58-10 reverse against the Springboks in Bloemfontein.
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Seems a lot of English sportspeople didn’t turn up for work today. Embarrassing performance.
@Tipper Irie: hopefully they won’t turn up next either
Somewhere Eddie Jones has given himself a hernia from laughing too much.
@KilkennyProud: he shouldn’t be, he left this sheet show. He lost the England team two years ago and they are now paying the price for not offloading him sooner. The game had moved on and Eddie had arrogantly stood still. Farrell and Catt had both worked under him and they moved with the game and we are benefitting from that.
@Tipper Irie: 100%
This result will only be really beautiful if ireland beat Scotland tomorrow. But still, it was highly highly entertaining. The looks on those English faces. Hahaha. Fantastic
@Johnny Honest: why laugh ? Teams lose, teams win. England are still the only northern hemisphere side to ever win a World Cup and we haven’t even made it past quarters . This isn’t soccer so leave the gloating aside and be more respectful.
Sacre bleu
I heard the commentators saying France were magnificent… they weren’t, they were good… but this English team is the worst I’ve seen in all my years.. England made a good french team look magnificent…. Ireland’s u 20′s would have hammered this English team. Just hope Ireland can do it tomorrow…
@Ronan Skelly: aren’t we playing Scotland?
Eddie Jones has taken England back to the dark ages. Terrible stuff
@Patrick Kelly: how?
@Patrick Kelly: hate to break it to you but Eddie Jones is no longer the english coach, gone a few months at this stage, but don’t let the detail get in the way of a good post
@Patrick Kelly: Yea, he’s really left nothing but his failed experiences all over the park, nothing for Borthwick to work with, only a novice would blame him as he’s only been on board for a few weeks.
@Charlie Murphy: he was manager of England for 7 years and took them so far back it’s shocking.
France utterly brilliant at times. England totally shambolic at times.
Can’t wait for the documentary after this one!
Delighted. What a victory.
Eddie humbled for all time!!
@Martin O’Reilly: He is gone to Aus?
Just
Hahahahahaha
That is all
Does make me giggle seeing the Irish laughing at England when it’s an Englishman whose about to lead them to the grand slam.
@Max Bailey: yeah. Farrell is a real English name!
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