After a long wait, this was a tantalising glimpse of what is possible for the England writes Kevin Garside in the Daily Telegraph.
"Men in late middle age, temporarily unhinged by the fantastic inversion playing out in the spring sunshine, took to their feet like Morris dancers to execute the Twickenham jig of the embarrassing uncle. The All Blacks had turned up in white shirts and France played like last week's England.
"So, like Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez following the mugging of Manchester United at Old Trafford, Martin Johnson gets to say: "I told you so." The mist lifted to reveal a team of verve and imagination, of backs running at opposing forwards, of a pack hitting the line at pace and the tackle from the legal side, of balls passing swiftly between English hands."
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