RWC 2011 highlights - England vs France 12-19

http://www.LiveSportsTV.up.to - BLIMEY! England's World Cup dreams fell apart under a French onslaught on a night when their shortcomings were brutally exposed at the quarter-final stage. First-half tries from Vincent Clerc and Maxime Medard opened a lead of 16 unanswered points as England shipped penalties and made basic errors across the park.

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England struck back with a fine try from Ben Foden and closed to within seven points with three minutes left when Mark Cueto capitalised on a break from replacement Matt Banahan. But they ran out of time and inspiration as Les Bleus set up a deserved semi-final clash with Wales.

France, so poor in their pool matches, were a side transformed as they took revenge for their World Cup defeats of 2007 and 2003. The defeat will leave manager Martin Johnson under pressure after his gamble of pairing Jonny Wilkinson and Toby Flood at 10 and 12 failed to ignite the England back line, while his forwards were repeatedly second best at the set-piece and in the loose.

"England were blown away in the first half and probably got a proper telling off. They came out with a little more pace and precision but they made too many mistakes with knock-ons, penalites and turnovers. England were never going to score from 80m out. "Those who have watched England before could see they were not any different but whereas Scotland and Argentina couldn't last the distance and England won late on, France were a different outfit."

Johnson's contract expires in November, and four weeks as memorable for scandals off the pitch as any achievements on it will do little to appease the notoriously twitchy committee-men at the Rugby Football Union.

France were supposedly a team in pieces, beaten by Tonga just a week ago and with coach Marc Lievremont publicly berating his players, but so clear-cut was their victory that much of the atmosphere had been sucked from the contest long before the end.

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[Hu9ogo]

youtube should bann powerpoints

[amasonga]

France was better than England, just like the Normans were than the Saxons!

[chinahands100]

england were poor but still out played wales..sad that some fukwit in the stands couldnt see a try

[BlueCamille17]

I'm french and that moment was so good :DDDD

But soon it will be the 6 NATIONS :DD a new France - England ... To me the match between France and England are the best , the two "best ennemies " as we say in FRance :)

[PierceBrosnanXXX]

@Tibly Sure go and play your game for girls "sucker" or whatever u call it... NFL, NHL and Rugby are for real warriors u should stuck yourself in your pathetic CHEATING "sucker"...

[7dayspking]

@mcphantic80 huh...?!?!?! England have a better record against ireland than ireland does against england of late they have been beating england somtimes but england are still beating them eventually ireland will take over but at the moment still tips in Englands favor although i like Ireland as a country and as a team alot more than england i love players like sean o'brien and steven ferris personally i'm aussie sadly quade cooper disgraced us until we pick up our game i look to other teams

[mcphantic80]

@7dayspking ireland regularly beat england in the 6 nations...

[eddiecapone76]

@rocksoliddude1 france was actually playing good in the 1st half but not so good in the 2nd half..

[rocksoliddude1]

england really were terrible in this world cup, they played like a bunch of amateur fools, they didnt deserve to qualify from their pool, argentina and scotland should have beaten them. but this frnch game was hilarious, france were playing badly but still beat england who were lets face it a complete joke. i laughed all through this match.

[7dayspking]

@theswampland go to "rugbyworldcup" dot"com" it's on there then go videos and look up the game

[7dayspking]

@crazydogfight no they don't hahaha what a stupid thing to say they often beat scotland and Australia and even more often than that they beat ireland they are easily a force