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The French farce could have ended so much earlier

THE farce that unfolded in Paris last Saturday, culminating in almost 20 minutes of added time was a perfect storm.
It combined skulduggery by coaches and players, and a referee, Wayne Barnes, with a marked reluctance to award a penalty try, but who otherwise kept his cool remarkably well.
The farce saw an inferior Welsh scrum – which had been dismantled by France for most of the match – duck and dive to survive a fifth quarter in which nine five metre scrums were awarded to the French.
It saw Barnes tackle a French medic after the home side pulled a fast one by taking Uini Aton...

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