WORLD CUP DIARY By Adam Hathaway

Happy times: England’s Ben Youngs, left, and Ellis Genge with their bronze medals after the bronze match
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BEN Youngs’ retirement was an unusual one at England’s training base near Paris on Wednesday. He had already told head coach Steve Borthwick and the squad but when he told the assembled hacks the news, he thanked them. He then added: “13 years go by like that, and some of you have been here for all of it”. Guilty.

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