GUEST COLUMN

“Jones wants even greater levels of managerial control over his international personnel”
One by one, England’s World Cup elite have been dribbling back into Premiership action, reacquainting themselves with the hoi polloi and, in a majority of cases at least, putting in an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay on the club beat.
And guess what? They will soon be flooding back out again, heading for the over-manicured nothingness of their Six Nations base in Surrey, where afternoon tea costs four times the hourly living wage, together with a sl...