STEVE Borthwick has taken a fork in the road which has led England into the Badlands of international rugby. With two weeks to go until England start their 2023 World Cup campaign against Argentina in Marseille his team looks high and dry.
The picture of Borthwick’s Red Rose ranks wilting in the warm-up heat was reinforced with a vengeance yesterday as Twickenham witnessed one of the worst days in England’s history when they lost to Fiji.
It left a warm-up ledger of three losses and just one win in the last month, and the Fiji debacle on top of dire defeats to Ireland and Wales – with only a ...