It’s Rorke’s Drift again, but this time the Welsh heroics end badly

By PETER JACKSON

Roar power: Referee Wayne Barnes awards a try to Damien Chouly, of France, deep in injury-time to level the scores at 18-18
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Fast start: Remi Lamerat gathers a chip ahread to score France’s opening try

WALES fell to the longest count in Test history yesterday, battered into submission after 20 minutes’ stoppage time amid allegations of biting, cheating and general jiggery-pokery.
The outrageous finale to a Royal occasion will demand an unprecedented Six Nations inquiry into the sequence of events that ended in the 100th minute after a...

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