England v Spain: Women's Rugby World Cup opener – live!

Live updates from the Pool B matchEmail Tom here or Tweet him here with your thoughtsGerard Meagher: standards rise but England still team to beat 10.33am BST Afternoon everyone. It is tempting, in this Great Summer of Women’s Sport, to make reductive comparisons between the respective England teams competing in tournaments, just as it has been to make tiresome simplistic comparisons between women’s teams and their male equivalents (expertly dealt with here), but it’s probably inevitable that the performance of England in this World Cup will be held up against or alongside the successes of the…