Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)

MAY DAY PUTS THE WELSH ON RED ALERT

- England France BY ALEX SPINK

JONNY MAY bagged a Twickenham hat-trick with just four touches to blow France away and send a shiver through Wales.

The Red Rose try machine took his tally to 12 in 12 games as England rampaged to their biggest win in the fixture for 108 years.

Victory by six tries to one put them two points clear at the top of the table and sends them to Cardiff on Saturday week for the likely title decider in buoyant mood.

“This is special,” said May. “To score one try for your country is awesome, especially at

Twickenham. So I will remember this day.

“The challenge was trying to raise the bar after a really good team performanc­e last week. We definitely played some good rugby.”

Within an hour of the final whistle team boss Eddie Jones had already moved on and was getting stuck into the tournament’s only other unbeaten side.

Rememberin­g his counterpar­t Warren Gatland last year describe the gap between Wales and a then-struggling England as “poles apart”, Jones sniped: “Let’s see how big the gap is next Saturday.”

His bullishnes­s came off the springboar­d of another devastatin­gly

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