England vs France preview: Calum Clark intent on passing Stuart Lancaster's final World Cup auditions

England have recorded some handsome victories in World Cup warm-up matches down the years, winning in such inhospitable places as Cardiff and Dublin and putting untold squillions of points past the Premiership All-Stars, although the poor souls in that godforsaken team of 1999 were neither stars nor, in some cases at least, Premiership players. Things have moved on since then, happily, as events at Twickenham tonight will surely demonstrate.