Foden backs Tindall to answer critics on pitch

BEN FODEN has backed Mike Tindall to “show the critics he is here to win a World Cup” when England tackle Romania in Saturday’s Pool B clash at the Otago Stadium.

Tindall has been at the centre of off-field controversy since joining a group of team-mates on a night out drinking in Queenstown, two days after captaining England to a 13-9 victory over Argentina.

The Gloucester centre has also been labelled by Saracens technical director Brendan Venter as “the personification of everything that is wrong with England’s attack” at the World Cup.