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France 24-17 England• Hosts race into 17-0 half-time lead before May leads fightback
When Eddie Jones talked recently about
England looking to become the greatest team the world has ever seen, this was not the start point he was envisaging. The
World Cup finalists were about as irresistibly brutal as a damp paper bag for the first hour of a wet Sunday afternoon in
Paris and were joyfully ripped apart by a French team not so much revitalised as reborn.
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