France v Ireland: live - Telegraph 20.13 I'm not so sure about this, though. Surely this call could have been made before 80,000 people entered the Stade du France (whose Twitter feed has mysteriously gone silent now!) 20.11 Good point: 20.06 And the BBC team are at a loss as to what to do for the next two hours. Frankly, I'm struggling, too! 20.03 Declan Kidney has just spoken to the BBC and said: "When you get ready for a game the players are pumped up for it, but the head has to rule. It was unsafe for the players. The game will have to be re-arranged. They have been on the phone already. How do you get that pumped up for a game? 20.00 The game should be kicking off now, but it will not. Welshman Jonathan Davis, in the pundit's chair for the BBC, has cheekily suggested that the sides should share one point each. 19.58 The boos ring out after an announcement is made at the stadium. Why is there not undersoil heating, the pundits ask? 19.56 It's still not official. Four minutes before kick-off ... Those fans are not going to be happy. This will be the first game in 25 years in the championship which has been postponed, if indeed it is called off. 19.54 The BBC are saying that the match is off! There are some frosty areas near to the touchline, which could be dangerous ... 19.52 The Telegraph's man in Paris, Brendan Gallagher, makes a good point. 19.48 Uhoh. After Pearson has said that the game should go on, now it seems that the coaches - Declan Kidney and Philippe Saint-André - have been trudging around the pitch and are not happy ... There is no undersoil heating at Stade du France. Is this going to be called off? 19.37 Here are the teams in full, with Keith Earls named at outside centre in the solitary change to the Ireland team that lost to Wales: France: Maxime Medard; Vincent Clerc, Aurelien Rougerie, Wesley Fofana, Julien Malzieu; Francois Trinh-Duc, Morgan Parra; Louis Picamoles, Imanol Harinordoquy, Thierry Dusautoir (capt); Yoann Maestri, Pascal Pape; Nicolas Mas, Dimitry Szarzewski, Jean-Baptiste Poux Replacements: William Servat, Vincent Debaty, Lionel Nallet, Julien Bonnaire, Julien Dupuy, Lionel Beauxis, Maxime Mermoz Ireland: Rob Kearney; Tommy Bowe, Keith Earls, Gordon D'Arcy, Andrew Trimble; Jonathan Sexton, Conor Murray; Jamie Heaslip, Sean O'Brien, Stephen Ferris; Paul O'Connell (capt), Donncha O'Callaghan, Mike Ross, Rory Best, Cian Healy Replacements: Sean Cronin, Tom Court, Donnacha Ryan, Peter O'Mahony, Eoin Reddan, Ronan O'Gara, Fergus McFadden 19.35 Good news for Ireland - fly-half Jonny Sexton has passed a very late fitness test, having tweaked his right thigh in the week. But his warm-up has gone well, which means that Ronan O'Gara will start on the bench. 19.32 The man in the middle tonight is Dave Pearson, who was linesman last week when Bradley Davies lost the plot. The Welsh second-row was subsequently banned for a tip-tackle for seven weeks, but Pearson saw it only as a yellow card offence. Considering that Wales scored late on you would assume that the Irish were not too happy with Pearson's decision in Dublin. Pearson, who had to make a call on whether the game went ahead or not in temperatures which have plunged to -8C, waves the match on. Good call! Brendan Gallagher has more information here. 19.30 After England's unconvincing win over Italy in Rome, Stuart Lancaster's new-look Red Rose climb to the top of the Six Nations ladder. But can they stay there for long, or will France, who walloped the Azzurri 30-12 on home turf last weekend, re-take the lead by defeating Ireland in Paris? If you are a betting man you would not like the odds against Declan Kidney's side, who lost out late on last week to Wales at their Aviva Stadium in Dublin. And the stats make for even more horrific viewing: the Irish have beaten France only once in Paris since 1972. That's a solitary victory in 40 years. Despite that, France's Imanol Harinordoquy, says that Les Bleus are taking nothing for granted at the Stade de France against the BOD-less Irish. The No8 returns to the starting line-up and is joined in the pack by Jean-Baptiste Poux, Yoann Maestri and Dimitri Szarzewski, with Morgan Parra also starts in place of the injured Dimitri Yachvili. Harinordoquy said: "I'm really happy to be able to play, to be starting ... against Ireland - there's plenty of reasons to enjoy yourself. It's maybe the match where, if you aren't on your game physically and at the breakdown, then you don't exist. They're specialists when it comes to defensive work - they work collectively. There are always two or three of them around the player with the ball, they tackle you high, they prevent you from going to ground and that slows down your ball. They win a lot of possession in those areas too. Every time it's been tight and the result hasn't always reflected how the match went. So for me there are no favourites for this match. They're a confident team that don't panic.