THE England rugby coach meets the chief executive of the RFU in the corridors of Twickenham.
“How yuh doing, Eddie?” asks the boss. “Guday, matey, just doing my thing! My way. I’m still choosing my World Cup team, my team, not anybody else’s.”
The chief executive takes a deep breath: “By that you mean: leaving out the best full-back in Europe, the best fly-half in the Premiership, the scrum-half most likely to score an opportunistic try in a closely-fought final, taking only one No.8, two hookers, and two inexperienced scrum halves?
“You have ...