PETER JACKSON VERDICT

Not since the glory days of the old Red Rose empire can an England player have lorded it over Twickenham the way Maro Itoje did yesterday.
There have, of course, been a multitude of more important occasions since Billy Williams converted the old cabbage patch more than a century ago but very few can have given a more convincing impression of actually owning the place than the armour-plated Saracen.
From start to finish, Itoje towered above the rest, like a country squire eager to see the trespassers off the estate with a collective flea in their ears. His performance...