England eliminated, to the delight of his enemies – L’Express

It was a game of stunning intensity, a piece of history of the World Cup rugby, yet the public Twickenham left before the end. This show was in the air, but removal of the XV of the Rose in the first round of the Rugby World Cup 2015 proved unbearable in the stands the temple of English rugby. Almost humiliating superiority of Australia (33-13) Saturday finalized the work started by the Wales a week earlier (28-25).

England will take days to recover and seek the culprits. Read newspapers and listen to the TV debates will have at least one merit. It will divert the most slaughtered fans of unbridled irony of its direct neighbors and historic rivals. The sky fell on the head of their best enemy. In France and the rest of the British Isles, we still laugh.

A delight feeling unbridled

“Sorry, good game.” This sentence cult who humiliated generations of players French was happily returned to sender, during and after the meeting, in pubs and on social networks. Even the image of the guard of honor late night has not reduced the acidity comments. Twickenham, whistling Australian players on their way to the locker room, certainly trampled if the concept of British fair play. English players, themselves, were impeccably fair play as their federation on Twitter.

On the other side of the Channel, England – Australia passionate French viewers. The match has generated, on Twitter, a wave of entirely unusual reactions to a rugby match. There was proposed to game level, a little. But especially relish facing the rout of the historical rival of the France team in the Six Nations.

“Fun but simplistic”

Here is a representative and not exhaustive sample of the English bashing unbridled “What cataclysm for English and what a pleasure for us !!! “,” England eliminated from the SA World Cup hens after 1 month of french bashing, what could be more enjoyable? “,” We won! We won! We won ! We won! We won! We won! We won! We won! We won! “,” I pity the nation that has spent a fortune to organize the spectacle of humiliation … “. Just if the French had not buried their divisions on one evening.

Of course, the bashing was not totally unanimous. The director of The Team , Cyril Linette, tweeted: “Bashing fun of English but completely reducer Do not forget the great perf Australians that were beautiful!”. But we must look to find comments of this nature.

The small pleasure of French is however not much beside the feeling that invaded neighboring England. For the Scots, the Welsh and the Irish, see England out of its own World Cup remains a pleasure priceless. Craig Linn, Scottish citizen, spoke for everyone with an easy picture to decipher.

“This is an effort to organize the Rugby World Cup and being unable to play there,” added thewelshproblems account. “In another genre, the Irishman Tomas Quinn focused on the hot reaction Stuart Lancaster, the England coach.

In London, the British version of the Bleacher Report ended the evening with a quick glance eye on the state of “Sweet Chariot” celebrated in the song of rallying England fans. The England team was crushed. But humor British is still alive.