An infectious mix of ‘S Club’ heaven has helped reinvigorate England’s team with the path to the
World Cup looking bright
The results from the autumn series are in and they make for deeply uncomfortable southern hemisphere reading. Not for 19 years have
South Africa,
New Zealand and Australia all lost on European soil on the same day and Ireland’s victory over
Argentina duly completes a clean sweep which should give the Rugby Championship’s finest plenty to ponder over their
Christmas holidays.
Maybe the pattern is not entirely a surprise given how long the Springboks, All Blacks and Wallabies have spent away from home in the Covid-affected line of duty. New Zealand have looked distinctly weary in defeat in both
Dublin and
Paris and when South Africa, playing their 13th Test in barely four months, were asked to perform one last encore at a raucous Twickenham they were ultimately not sharp enough to deliver it.