Manu Tuilagi faces being ruled out of the start of England’s Six Nations campaign with a groin injury.
Tuilagi pulled up in Sale’s home win against Saracens on 22 December and Alex Sanderson, Sale’s director of rugby, predicted on Thursday that the centre will be out for “five or six weeks” with a grade-three muscle tear. “He’s pulled his groin. He doesn’t need an operation,” Sanderson said. “We think he’s going to be back during the Six Nations, but not for the first week of it.”
