England 56-15 New ZealandRed Roses secure back-to-back victories over Black FernsA lot can happen in four years. A brand new competition can offer rugby players around
England the opportunity to play at an elite level week after week. Twenty nine of them can quit their day
Job and focus entirely on their sport. A single team, still the only fully professional side in the world, can transform themselves into the most dominant outfit on the planet.
That is the condensed story of England’s Red Roses. Beaten 41-32 in the 2017
World Cup final by
New Zealand, they have now put 99 points on the current champions across two one-sided contests. The latest result, a 56-15 battering at Franklin’s Gardens, underlined a seismic shift in the global power balance.