
Perhaps no player has personified the gulf between England and the rest of the Women’s Six Nations more than Sarah Bern. The tighthead prop is still only 25 but is already on her way to becoming England’s greatest-ever prop – with all due respect to the incomparable Rocky Clark.
This weekend, when England travel to Cardiff to take on Wales, who are also unbeaten, Bern’s opposite number will be a similarly prodigious talent.