Elbowed out: Jaco Peyper brings out the red card for Frances’s Sebastien Vahaamahina

ENGLANDhead into the World Cup final armed with the best disciplinary record of the eight teams in the knock-out stage.
They have conceded one fewer penalty over five matches than Japan over the same number.
Just as Michael Leitch and his squad reached the quarter-finals without a solitary yellow card so England have gone all the way with the same clean sheet.
That a record eight players were sent off and six more given retrospective suspensions for red-card offences under the citing process makes ...