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...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...'
They did fail, but there are rumblings afoot, a movement pushing for Martin Johnson to 'manage' England...
Eye on the game then !Martin Johnson said:...England might conceivably have won the game had they had 16 players, as they briefly did in the second half when a spectator - whose choice of shirt suggested that not all New Zealand supporters have yet made it home - ran on and joined an English ruck.
He will probably be in court this morning, with his French lawyer trying to get him off on the grounds that his urge to inject a bit of joie de vivre into the game constituted a crime of passion...