Rugby Union - England v Uruguay - IRB Rugby World Cup 2015 Pool A - City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester, England - 10/10/15 England fans outside the ground before the game Action Images via Reuters / Jason Cairnduff Livepic
MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - England brought a close to their sorry Rugby World Cup campaign with a predictably emphatic 60-3 victory over Uruguay on Saturday in a final outing that provided a crumb of comfort but did little to soothe the open wound of a pool-stage exit.
With irreparable damage already done in consecutive defeats to Wales and Australia, this was little more than a 10-try exercise in arithmetic in Manchester rather than the expected rousing send-off into the quarter-finals.
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