CHRIS HEWETT
GUEST COLUMNIST

Way back in the early 1950s – another moment when it was difficult to decide if English rugby belonged in a sit-com or a sanitorium – Max Miller was the most celebrated stand-up in the land. A typical gag? “A man asks his wife if there’s anything wrong. ‘I’m homesick,’ she says. ‘But you ARE at home.’ ‘I know. And I’m sick of it’.”
This elderly joke sprang to mind last Saturday night as Paris rocked to the beat of a Grand Slam after-party and platoons of pundits lauded Les Bleus as the next global champions, a year and a half early – largely on the grounds...