...England's leading players have revealed that their astonishing World Cup success story was the result of three crucial meetings during the tournament. 'Without those meetings, we would have lost the quarter-final,' leading England players said yesterday, 'They were painful meetings involving players swearing, shouting and threatening the coaches and the managers, and telling them to 'do some f***ing work', but without the meetings, England would have failed.'...
...'We desperately needed Brian Ashton to step in and sort it out but it was like he was frozen ' a rabbit in the headlights' watching all this chaos take place...'
