Well hell’s bells, behold Borthersball and tremble! It’s a game of caterpillar rucks, scrums, and up-and-unders in which clean breaks are for noses and overlaps are best left for fence panelling. This was, apparently, the same sport France and New Zealand were playing at the Stade de France on Friday night, in much the same way that a tabby cat is family with a tiger.
Not that it matters a damn given that England won against a team two spots above them in the rankings before the tournament and even though they were a man down for 77 minutes. When you put it like that this must rank, in a strange way, as one of their very best World Cup performances.
