Toby Flood reflects on England's exit from the World Cup
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Patrick Collins delivers a bruising assessment of England's flawed World Cup campaign in the Mail on Sunday.
"As the cruel old football chant has it: 'You're not very good!' It was a recurring theme last night, as a sorely abused and casually underestimated French team demonstrated the jarring facts of tournament rugby.
"France are highly unlikely to win the Webb Ellis Trophy; their faults are obvious, their essential spirit uncertain. But when they choose they can play at daunting pace and with rigorous precision.
"And last night, at all the important junctures of an absorbing match, they chose. For the best part of an hour, France produced a game that the English do not know."
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