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Narrated by James Marriott
So the headline news is that Australia have lost to Fiji for the first time since 1954. It is that Australia have sustained one massive blow here in Saint-Étienne and are down on the canvas and when they are back on their feet in Lyon next Sunday, Wales can knock them out for good. It is that Eddie Jones, the Australia coach, is taking responsibility and apologising for getting it wrong and suggesting that the crowd, who booed him anyway, should now be throwing baguettes and croissants at him. And of course, it is that the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard was an epic, historic place to be yesterday evening.
Yet whatever leavened projectile anyone may wish to direct at the Australia coach, the Wallaby fans will have
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