Crisis time – can England stop the rot in Cape Town

From NICK CAIN in Bloemfontein

It tastes bitter: Captain Owen Farrell and fly-half George Ford leave the field
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■ Mako Vunipola will miss the third Springboks Test. He is flying back to London today for family reasons which were agreed ahead of the tour.
Ellis Genge has also gone home for treatment on a knee injury.

ENGLAND are facing a crisis barely a year out from the 2019 World Cup after five consecutive Test defeats, the latest of them as they slumped to a 2-0 series collapse against South Africa in Bloemfontein after another incoherent, indisciplined dis...

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