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Young guns who fired the triumph of 2003

RUGBY MATTERS
While we rightly ruminate on the 20th anniversary of England’s World Cup triumph we should also doff a 30th anniversary cap to a long forgotten team and tour, namely the England U21 side that toured Australia and returned with a famous win over their Australian counterparts.
As you will recall there was a time when the old IRB considered the U21 age group as the last stopping off point for young talent and England, under the managership of John Elliot, embraced that fully as well as running a flourishing B team which played all the Five Nations as well as Italy while they toured...

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