Six Nations: French errors open the door for England

By Paul Rees

It was like Messi blazing over in front of an open goal, Virat Kohli holing out in the deep after tucking into a long hop and Novak Djokovic sending a simple set winner into the net.
Thomas Ramos missed a penalty from just to the left of the posts, Antoine Dupont, showing a rare glimpse of mortality, knocked on with the line at his mercy and Damian Penaud failed to collect a pass five metres out.
France’s bespectacled head coach Fabien Galthie watched from the stand not believing his own eyes, as if he had been given someone else’s prescription by his optician.
He looked even ...

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