The best England team in the world

Jonny Wilkinson

Phil Vickery

Steve Thompson

Jason Leonard

Martin Johnson

Maro Itoje

Mike Teague

Peter Winterbottom

ENGLAND have had four teams in World Cup finals – 1991, 2003, 2007 and 2019 – with the 2003 side the only one to have become world champions.
Picking a team from those four England finalists is no easy task because the entire pool of players are legends in clubhouses throughout the land.
There is also the significant obstacle of comparing eras, with the 1991 England side that lost narrowly to Australia at Twickenham, still rooted in the amate...

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