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On the newsstands Monday morning, the weekly edition of The Rugby Paper owned a brash headline.
It was a quote attributed to Jeremy Guscott, predicting that Luther Burrell would bulldoze England to victory over Ireland on Sunday.
A very confident prediction, indeed.
Of course, the game had been and gone.
Ireland stormed to victory after blitzing England from the sky and then rumbling them at the breakdown.
That wasn’t supposed to happen.
The England midfield was briefed and that brief was to overpower its opposition in Dublin.
Instead, with little support and poor first-up rucki…
It was a quote attributed to Jeremy Guscott, predicting that Luther Burrell would bulldoze England to victory over Ireland on Sunday.
A very confident prediction, indeed.
Of course, the game had been and gone.
Ireland stormed to victory after blitzing England from the sky and then rumbling them at the breakdown.
That wasn’t supposed to happen.
The England midfield was briefed and that brief was to overpower its opposition in Dublin.
Instead, with little support and poor first-up rucki…
