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Bryn Palmer

Wilko woe puts England on defensive (29)

Versailles

Incroyable. Day one of England’s World Cup proper, and crocked already.

Plus ca change, mes amis, plus ca change. Brian Ashton tried to put a brave face on it, but he hardly gave the appearance of a man who said he had given up worrying about what might happen to players for fear he might lose what hair he had left.

β€œYou just get on with it,” said the head coach, by which he presumably meant being as defensive as possible about every question asked about the subject.

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Ben Dirs

Life thru a Lens (75)

Near Lens

BEN: There is something slightly disturbing about watching a man kissing and stroking a 3G internet card in the back of a darkened motor home in a remote campsite in Normandy…Tommy?

TOM: Desperation can force a man to do many things, Benjamin. Why, there was the time that, naked as the day I was born, I was forced to… but no. That story is perhaps a little racy for the current climate. And I’ve apologised to the in question a thousand times, anyway.

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Bryn Palmer

World Cup fever? (3)

Versailles

β€œMesdames et messieurs, bienvenue a Paris.” It was only when I rolled into the Gare du Nord on the Eurostar on Monday afternoon that it finally hit me.

La Coupe du Monde, c’est arrive! Finally. The eternal build-up almost over, the warm-up nonsense done and dusted, the real thing upon us once again.

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