CHRIS HEWETT
When a front-line England player tells his national coach that he is unavailable for World Cup duty – not because he has suffered too many concussions in too short a time, or lost an argument with his surgeon, or finds himself on his worst run of form since hitting puberty, but because he wants to “chill” – it is difficult not to rub the eyes in disbelief.
But that’s where we are with Jack Nowell, sadly. “It was a bit of a hard decision not to put myself in for selection for the World Cup,” the Exeter back was quoted as saying last week. “I thought it was probably one I had to ...