No shocks in England leaks

THE payoff may be later than a Wesley Snipes credit card bill, but this week the Rugby World Cup finally produced some of the entertainment it had promised as the mole in the RFU delivered a funnier script featuring a dwarf than Ricky Gervais appears to have managed.

It’s almost as if six interminable weeks of pick and drive, that drew winter upon us with every passing moment, was worth it after all.

The litany of recrimination and excuses from the England camp makes priceless reading. It wasn’t cool to train hard. They never told us how much we could drink. Tinds was only in that state because he lost the drinking games.