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@swee'pea99 described so well, it was a very entertaining match (even as an England fan). There was about 20minutes when I put the chances about equal, the 15 men in green were clearly rattled.
The match of the weekend ... apart from the Wales game! That was a GREAT contest.
Another epic! Sadly for me it was slightly spoiled by the fact that I didn't get to see it till Sunday, by which time inevitably I'd bumped into the score, which does take quite a lot of the juice out of the thing. Again, I honestly thought Wales were going to get simple outplayed by France, 15+point margin without getting out of third, especially after that early try: vintage, gorgeous, French rugby at its best. But then, non. Ironically enough, French captures it best: ils ne passeront pas. Wales dug in, they held, they would not yield. And then they came back. The momentum shifted again, and suddenly it was France who were looking rattled, and fumbling. But they didn't yield either. Titanic. Rugby at its best.
I honestly can't recall a 6 Nations to match this year's. There really hasn't been a dud (Italy aside, sorry but), and quite a lot of the games have been absolute belters. And France v England with the winning/denying of a grand slam as a finale! What did we do to deserve this?
