Canada 11 England 36

Freed from the six-month scandal that has dogged his rugby career, former captain Lawrence Dallaglio was in outstanding form as England were made to work for their win over Canada at Twickenham.

Dallaglio was awarded the man-of-the-match award as England were made to fight for every point in their final full international warm-up game before the start of the World Cup on October 1.

England ran in a total of five tries with a brace from recalled centre Will Greenwood, wing Dan Luger, full-back Matt Perry and scrum-half Matt Dawson with Johnny Wilkinson hitting four conversions and a penalty.

Canada's points came from a breakaway try by Winston Stanley who beat Dan Luger to touch down in the corner and two penalties from veteran fly-half Gareth Rees.

Canada proved infinitely tougher opposition than the USA the previous weekend, defending bravely and trying to spoil England's attempts at play running rugby at every turn.

England captain Martin Johnson was shown the yellow card for the third time in seven matches after fighting with Canadian flanker Dan Baugh who was also carded for starting the incident punching Richard Hill in the face.

Johnson said he was very disappointed that England failed to convert their overwhelming domination into more points:"It was very frustrating," said the Leicester lock.  "It has brought us back to earth with a bump after the America game but maybe that's what we needed.  "There were dozrens of overlaps and chances but too often the ball went to ground.  But you have to credit the Canadians for their defence even if their tactic were a little borderline," he added.

Dallaglio took the field three days after being fined 15,000 pounds for bringing the game into disrepute following a 10-week investigation into newspaper allegations he took drugs during a British Lions tour.  He was greeted by rapturous applause by the small Twickenham crowd.

"Lawrence was outstanding," said England coach Clive Woodward."With Richard Hill and Neil Back they are a world-class back row."

Woodward was also disappointed by the number of opportunities England missed.  It was encouraging to create so much but annoying to convert so little.  If we had kicked everything we probably would have won by another 20 points but that would have been a waste of time in terms of preparation."

The teams:

Canada:  1 Rod Snow, 2 Pat Dunkley, 3 John Thiel, 4 Mike James, 5 John Tait, 6 Dan Baugh, 7 Ryan Banks, 8 Alan Charron, 9 Half Morgan Williams, 10 Gareth Rees (c), 11 Courtney Smith, 12 Scott Bryan, 13 Dave Lougheed, 14 Winston Stanley, 15 Scott Stewart
Reserves:  Mark Cardinal, John Hutchinson, Duane Major, David Penney, Bobby Ross, Mike Schmid
Unused:  John Graf

England:  1 Graham Rowntree, 2 Phil Greening, 3 Phil Vickery, 4 Danny Grewcock, 5 Martin Johnson (c), 6 Neil Back, 7 Richard Hill, 8 Lawrence Dallaglio, 9 Matt Dawson, 10 Jonny Wilkinson, 11 Austin Healey, 12 Will Greenwood, 13 Jerry Guscott, 14 Dan Luger, 15 Matt Perry
Reserves:  Nick Beal, Mike Catt, Richard Cockerill, Martin Corry, Darren Garforth, Jason Leonard, Tim Stimpson

Referee:  Dume

Points Scorers:

Canada
Tries:  Stanley W.U. 1
Pen K.:  Rees G.L. 2

England
Tries:  Dawson M.J.S. 1, Greenwood W.J.H. 2, Luger D.D. 1, Perry M.B. 1
Conv:  Wilkinson J.P. 4
Pen K.:  Wilkinson J.P. 1