Steve Borthwick: We need to build a fortress

By Adam Hathaway

Steve Borthwick has urged his England to pick up the winning habit and turn Twickenham into a fortress once again.
Virtually all of the 82,000 tickets have been sold for the autumn opener against New Zealand on November 2 and Borthwick wants fans to get some bang for their bucks.
England will arrive at HQ on the back of two narrow defeats in New Zealand tacked onto an agonising defeat to France at the end of the Six Nations and Borthwick wants to shed the plucky loser’s tag.
Defeats for England at Twickenham in their World Cup-winning era were as rare as a Martin Johnson d...

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