France beats England to win 6 Nations Grand Slam

Posted by Mandeep Kaur on March 21, 2010 in Uncategorized · 0 Comment

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Since 2004 France won its first six Nations Grand Slam after beating England 12-10. Three penalties’ from Morgan Parra put the team 12-7 up at halftime. For France, since 2007, it was the first Six Nations and it also won the Grand Slam in 2002.

England wing Mark Cueto said “All credit to the French, we threw everything at them today but we camp up a bit short.”David Marty came at centre for Mathieu Bastareaud 10 minutes into the second half and his run through the English midfield was a rare French attack.

Martin Johnson, England manager made six changes to his team and the most notable one was to drop Wilkinson to the bench to make way for Flood.