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Bryn Palmer

England Ratings (217)

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England opened their World Cup in less than emphatic style with a .

I was at the Stade Felix Bollaert and here's how I rated each individual player's performance. Let me know what you made of it and add your own thoughts.

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Ben Dirs

Look back in Angers (37)

- As far as I’m concerned, last night’s biggest revelation wasn’t that France have got no hope of winning the World Cup, but that French youths drink and rose rather than cans of Stella.

It’s depressing to think that even France’s chavs are more sophisticated than ours, and even more depressing to think that Argentina might have naused up the whole tournament with their .

Although we had planned to be in Nantes by now, Tom and I watched the match in Angers, a pretty (are any French towns not pretty?) town in the Loire Valley.

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Bryn Palmer

France fluff their lines (35)

Paris - Ooh la la! Quel cauchemar. France’s dream of a World Cup victory on home soil has already become the stuff of nightmares.

An evening that began in a mood of joyous celebration and optimism ended in and despair for the host nation.

They fluffed their opening lines in the most infuriatingly French manner possible, but the indefatigable Pumas were the most passionate and predatory of party poopers.

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