France survive in Cardiff cauldron but offer England reasons for hope | Michael Aylwyn


The Six Nations leaders were pushed all the way by Wales’s rejigged pack and their bitterest enemies will have taken note

Another step negotiated by New France, as they progress to their own World Cup next year – and, before that, a date with their bitterest enemy, everyone’s bitterest enemy in rugby’s small world, England in Paris next weekend.

Another successful step there, and a grand slam will be theirs, a first since 2010, a first title since 2010, a dozen years, long and barren. That said, this notion that France are in a different class to les autres suffered a few cracks.

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