Took my Corsican father in law to the England game last week. He was the only one in our part of the stand who could sing the Italian national anthem.

From tiny acorns....

Enjoyed the game, good to have another pretty good national side in world cup.

Good game, and a great choice to showcase on the TV. It showed a National audience that there is more to our World Cup than just England, Australia & New Zealand.

Itastralians is good but Auzurri is better! #auzurri

Very good game, surprised at how many people left at half-time: what's the point of watching half a game?

Impressed by the way the Italians managed to step up a gear when they felt the pressure, but also at how fearless the Welsh drives were.

Really impressed by the Italians, like previouly mentioned its good to see the game spread. Ok, they were Italian Australians but for me its a start and it pains me to say it but well done Italy, a potential dark horse.

Italians have Kade Snowden available for the next game as he has now served his 7 match suspension.
Kade will add a lot to an already strong forward pack.

Great Britain...36, Australia...60

It takes a real genius to point out that most of the Italian squad play in Australia.

Typo fixed.

It's just a shame that both Gower and Campese are injured and can't play in this world cup.
Italy would be a serious hurdle for the top 3 sides if they had world class halves as well.

It's great to see Joshie Mantellato get MOTM too. No one has done more to get Italy into this position. He paid his own way to play for them in their first season of International competition, his excellent kicking is the reason they got the spot over Lebanon on for and against, and he kicked the field goal to beat England.