by CHRIS HEWETT

The Six Nations champions’ abject surrender of the Calcutta Cup unleashed a torrent of jokes, the sharpest of which concerns a man given 80 minutes to live by his doctor. “Is there anything I can do?” he asks, panic-stricken. “You could watch England play rugby,” comes the reply. “Will that cure me?” “No, but it will make the time you have left seem like an eternity.”
There’s plenty more where that came from, but are we being wholly fair to Eddie Jones and his shop-soiled charges? Was it really the grimmest England showing since white-shirted dinosaurs roamed the earth?
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