France started their RBS 6 Nations campaign with an impressive 30-12 defeat of Italy in Paris. Tries from Aurelien Rougerie, Julien Malzieu, Vincent Clerc and Wesley Fofana enabled the beaten World Cup finalists to extend their winning run at the Stade de France to nine matches. It means the tournament favourites remain unbeaten in home matches on the opening day of a championship since 1975, although they did not have things all their own way early on. After plenty of early Italy possession, Dimitri Yachvili settled home nerves with a 12th-minute penalty. However, the visitors levelled the scores with a Kristopher Burton drop-goal five minutes later, after the same player had failed with an...

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