Peter Jackson: Nobody saw this coming, perhaps not even Borthwick
THE MAN IN THE ARENA: England head coach Steve Borthwick arrives at Twickenham. Pic: INPHO/Andrew Fosker
Every now and then, whenever they sense their tournament becoming a bit too predictable for its good, the gods of the Six Nations decree otherwise.
And so it came to pass that those sitting on Mount Olympus conspired to restore universal belief in the competition’s seismic tendency for smashing the Richter Scale with gob-smacking results; first in Rome then, more thunderously still, in one of London’s posher suburbs.
