Stranger things have happened. On Wednesday, the Mona Lisa will be moved for the first time in 31 years from its little corner of the Louvre to another room of one of the biggest art galleries in the world. But, no, Newcastle, running on intangible dreams and outgunned in every department, were never going to beat Stade on a warm day in Paris.
Rob Andrew had correctly identified an upset as 'the biggest result in our history'. What else could the coach say? It quickly became obvious, though, that this was not so much a contest as a training run, an opportunity for David Skrela to twist and turn the Falcons defence with his angled kicks, long and short, a chance too for Mathieu Blin to show us why he is one of the best running hookers in the game and for the free-running Olivier Sarramea to torment the Falcons backline with raid after raid.
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